Will technology save us? We won't know for sure until it does.

When market liberals say that we will some day discover a technology which saves us from environmental disaster, I become very skeptical. We can never be sure what is possible to do with technology until we have discovered it. In the past, many of the technologies that we have today would have seemed "impossible" to most people- and even to intellectuals. Will we find a miraculous new energy source which is efficient, renewable, and 100% clean? Will we discover ways to recycle materials we previously thought could never be re-used? To clean up the damage we've already done, in addition to lessening the damage we do in the future? We can strive to make technologies which fix these things, but until they actually exist, we can't predict that they're going to exist.

I am sure that we will develop technologies which help to reduce our impact on the environment. However, at the same time, we will be continuing to consume and develop technologies which increase our impact. So, technology is not going to "save us" by itself. We also need to live more sustainable lives by reducing consumption and pollution, or holding back on new technologies which will damage the environment further. Enough is enough!