Welcome to my Philosophies and Possible-but-Improbable Theories on Technology & The Environment

Ok, so this page is designed to show how exasperated I am about the excessive obsession that people seem to have for Technology and its development, and how they fail to promote the maintenance and balance of the Environment. This may make me sound like a greeny, but on the rare chance that I enter politics, I would NOT support the Greens, because I think some of my idealistic views are too wayward for that. =)

11:30pm, 5/11/99 I think the hypocrisy of the human race is that they constantly strive to improve the lifestyle for their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren but go absolutely in the wrong direction to achieve this. Technology is a curse... hmmmm, and here I am expressing these believes on technological equipment... Anyway, I believe - and this I really do, I think -that the search for improved technology is a futile attempt by humans to learn more and more information and try to be God ?and I mean be as in be. I mean, what’s all this about genetic engineering and putting dead-people’s limbs on other people? I don’t get it! I mean, like I said earlier, should I be faced with the fact that I wouldn’t have a hand for the rest of my life, I might think differently on the matter, but I think that morally and ethically it is wrong. How would you feel if you got killed in a car-accident, your spiritual self looking forward to a nice funeral and burial, only to find that you’ll be buried with only one hand? because the guy next door needed it?

11:30pm, 5/11/99 I do not understand why the human race constantly strives to increase the length of people's lifetimes, curing them of cancer, helping barren women have babies, with technologies that would never have been dreamt of in the beginning, and then turn around and complain that the world is suffering from overpopulation. I think the priority is to the environment rather than the people; sure, if you prolong people's lives, you have a very happy life - but there's no world for this life to be lived in.... if you do whatever is possible to promote the environment, even if people die from it, more generations can survive.

11:30pm, 6/11/99 But then, of course, comes the theory that what geographers would consider as "human development encroaching on delicate environmental habitats" is actually an animal instinct for humans, trying to maintain the existence of their species, just like parasites or packs of wolves hunt and kill to maintain their own existence?

11:30am, 7/11/99 One thing I seriously object to - which, unlike other declarations on this page, I actually DO object to - is genetic engineering. What's all this about changing DNA to make all children blond and blue-eyed (not that there’s anything wrong with that =) and developing human embryos inside a cow so that they can mass produce babies?! I mean, picture this: the year is 2030:


"Hey! My mum’s a cow! Really!"
or "Hey! I’m a son of a bitch!"

(For the more delicate visitors to my page, you must excuse my language, but you get the point!) Genetic engineering = trying to play God; and since the Human Race are such egotistical and incapable people, Man will always make mistakes - big ones! More genetic engineering and any other interference by Man leads to more errors, more unhappiness, more protests and more attempts to fix things - another lovely chain reaction produced by man! I also say that genetic engineering and various other technologies which allow infertile women to have babies is DUMB! If you can’t have kids you can’t have kids! End it! How about helping those poor dejected orphans or those who were rejected by their parents? The world has too many of those too - not enough responsible parents *angry lashings out*. The more we try and help people have kids the more this world will suffer from overpopulation and the faster this world will come to an end! You might think, "Hey, by the time the world is too overpopulated to exist, we’ll have made enough technology to build our own food using computers" - well too bad! Something is going to break down before hand, and my vote is that technology will fall!

11:30am, 14/11/99 Ok, so just a bit of a lighter thought - not happy, but just less morbid that my ideas have been so far. Refridgeration has caused a lot of problems to the environment. Formerly, we hunt what we need, eat it, and don't kill any more than we need. Nowadays, we kill heaps, store it all, and animal numbers are depleted...

8:00pm, 26/11/99 This world was designed for people to live in - until we find some other human species living on some other planet, I don't think we should invade on any other delicate ecosystem - just gives us more to stuff up. Of course, at this stage of things - when humans of stuffed up so much and it's virtually impossible to backtrack - I guess space exploration has to be the answer. However, I also say that the overpopulation problem needs to be solved by reducing the population and not by increasing living space. One Child Policy ... hmmm, that's an iffy one; it'll lead to a lot of spoilt antisocial kids, and probably a one-gender preference. .. more on this another day.

10:42am, 5/7/00 Ok, so they've just been able to get all the different encodings of DNA. So they predict that in 10 years, no-one will die of cancer. Let me say one thing. YEAH RIGHT!. If i get Cath's permission (or maybe even if i don't), i might publish a story of hers, called "The Hypothalamus of Mr Phillips" which is the most amusing story ever, but it is possible and true. Actually, i might publish it, ask permission later ;)