[krageon]

It's escalated humanity's incapability to look toward the future or do long-term planning in any reliable kind of way very problematic. It's also made the tendency for humans to go to war significantly more problematic for everyone that isn't already a murdering loon.

While there's plenty of positive effects of the march of technological progress, let's not pretend it's done us an unequivocally good turn. The state of the environment is enough to explain that.