Do technology and nature inherently exclude each other?
<p>Seventy thousand years ago, the eruption of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Toba volcano</a> nearly wiped out humanity for the second time. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj9484" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Nine hundred thousand years ago</a>, our ancestors numbered only a few on the planet. Three thousand two hundred years ago, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bronze Age civilization</a> abruptly disappeared. Today, just over two centuries after the successive industrial revolutions, we face a new global threat: global warming, pollution, and biodiversity loss could once again imperil all of humanity.</p>
<p>It is undeniable that industrial technology can have a destructive impact on nature. However, the notion that human well-being, achieved through technology, has come at the expense of nature is overly simplistic. In the early stages of technology, the harm it caused could be absorbed by nature. But with successive industrial revolutions, technology, galvanized by the digital revolution, now threatens humanity itself. Technology, designed to shield us from the harshness of nature, risks destroying it, pulling us into this perilous spiral.</p>
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