From: Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Date: Sat Jul 18 1998 - 09:21:35 MDT
Dan Clemmensen writes:
> > > Are transhumanist technologies environmentally sound?
> >
> > If you define environment as current ecosystem, no.
> >
>
> Transhumanist technologies have the potential to preserve
> existing ecosystems. Reasonable non-transhuman extrapolations
> of existing human culture have no chance of preserving the
> current ecosystem.
True, current development is not sustainable. Transhuman technologies
_could_ preserve/rebuild virtually anything (and more), however, they
can destroy a planetary ecosystem within minutes, if not seconds. So
we cannot answer this question reliably, just now.
'gene
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