As the interest in environmental matters rise due to ever-more-frequent disastrous weather events, also becomes manifest the separation in public mind between technology and environmentalism. There are some people who want to hear nothing about the environment and make constant claims that caring for the planet is bad for the economy. There are also people who believe that science, technology and industry are evil and want to return to the land. Both are in grave error.

The first group is wrong for a simple and obvious reason that healthy environment is necessary for a livable world. Without such, the quality of life will vastly decrease, whatever is produced by the economy. With island nations sinking into the sea, oceans turning to acid, coastal areas being flooded, and all kinds of disastrous weather events taking place, what is threatened is not only lives of a vast number of people but also the quality of life for the rest. Since the premise of economics is improving people’s existence, this state of affairs puts a lie to that claim for as long as people who claim to be interested in economic well-being remain aggressively uninterested in the health of the environment.

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