Bio-fuelling the Hummer? Transdisciplinary Thoughts on Techno-Optimism and Innovation in the Transition from Unsustainability
Bio-fuelling the Hummer? Transdisciplinary Thoughts on Techno-Optimism and Innovation in the Transition from Unsustainability
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2016
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J. Barry
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J. Barry
人类不仅是自然界没有专门化的物种，而且还是“使用工具的动物”。事实上，正是我们人类利用想象力和智力来创造和开发技术的能力，使我们能够生活在或暂时访问或居住在几乎所有气候、地球表面和海洋的景观中。我们物种的技术能力，连同我们的社会性、语言能力和创建持久文化系统的能力，是我们物种没有预先定义的“生态位”的主要原因之一（Barry，1999）。作为使用工具的动物，我们的进化历程意味着整个地球就是我们的家园。用 19 世纪作家和思想家托马斯·卡莱尔 (Thomas Carlyle) 在他的小说《Sartor Resartus》中敏锐的话说：
As well as being the species nature did not specialise, humanity is the ‘toolusing animal’. Indeed it is our species’ ability to use our imaginations and intellectual capacities to create and develop technology that has enabled us to live in or temporarily visit or dwell in almost all climates, landscapes of the earth’s surface and oceans. Our species’ technological capacity is, together with our sociality, linguistic capacity and ability to create enduring cultural systems, one of the main reasons why our species does not have a pre-defined ‘ecological niche’ (Barry, 1999). As the tool-using animal, our evolutionary journey has meant that the earth as a whole is our home. In the perceptive words of the 19th century writer and thinker Thomas Carlyle in his novel Sartor Resartus:
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W. Laurance
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W. Laurance