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A Hybrid ImaginationThe Greening of Science and Technology

A Hybrid Imagination: The Greening of Science and Technology [Our species is really quite special. We’ve learned so much and come so far in such a short time. So far, in fact, that it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of hubris - of thinking that we really understand this world and that we can fix any problem that might come up. That is a dangerous assumption…As a society and as a species we’ve become so used to science and technology that we’ve forgotten that these are just ways of understanding and manipulating the world. They do not solve problems on their own. And as many problems as they do help resolve, they also create them a new.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Hybrid ImaginationThe Greening of Science and Technology

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2011
ISBN
978-3-031-79973-0
Pages
127 –149
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-79974-7_7
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[Our species is really quite special. We’ve learned so much and come so far in such a short time. So far, in fact, that it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of hubris - of thinking that we really understand this world and that we can fix any problem that might come up. That is a dangerous assumption…As a society and as a species we’ve become so used to science and technology that we’ve forgotten that these are just ways of understanding and manipulating the world. They do not solve problems on their own. And as many problems as they do help resolve, they also create them a new.]

Published: Jan 1, 2011

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