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“To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.”
― The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
― The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
“A writer must recognize normal standards of scholarly objectivity, give adequate evidence to back up assertions of fact, and proffer arguments in an unbiased, logical way. Observing such standards one says, in effect, what I offer is reliable; any reasonable person equipped with the same points of evidence and logic ought to arrive at similar conclusions. But as important as these standards are, they leave two fundamental questions unanswered. Where does my own personal interest in these topics come from? Why have I chosen to approach them in the way I have?”
― The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
― The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
“There is the capitalist approach (make it bigger), the technocratic one (make it better), the ‘revolutionary’ solution (portray the problem as an example of an exploitative system) and the pre-industrial romantic fallacy (don’t use it; maybe it will go away by itself). We propose a fifth alternative response: Let’s invent a different answer.”28”
― The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
― The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
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