Howdy Peter, I am sorry if I came off as flippant. I just was pointing out the obvious- technology is a double-edged sword. It is not technology itself that gets us in trouble, but rather the application.
Guag Meister wrote: > Hi Bob ; > >> We were better >> off running down the gazelles and ripping their >> throats out with our >> teeth. ;-> > > Ha, don't laugh. Where I have my farm in Cambodia, > the local poeple have no running water, no > electricity, almost no roads. They manage to live > without most of the modern conveniences and most > appear to be happy people. > > Yet many are deformed physically (not to mention > dead) due to a long war and landmines. If I asked > them what has science and technology done for them, > almost all the answers would be negative. A few good > things are the creation of sensitive mine detectors > and decent prosthetic limbs. > > Technology and medicine is great but these things > matter little when the Americans are carpet bombing > your country out of existence, and the Russians are > planting landmines at a furious pace with no record > keeping. In Thailand there is a saying : "When > elephants fight, ants die." > > All things considered I believe the net effect of > technology is negative. Taken to it's logical > conclusion, the best course for mankind would be to > live like we lived long ago. There once was a > prominent leader who advocated living this way. His > name was Jesus. > > BR > Peter G. > Thailand > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > > -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob ========================================================= The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
