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is caused by the human compulsion to share information via
language and writing in a social context and to demonstrate
knowledge. We see the popularity of quizzes, chatting, or gossiping,
helping to preserve the social system which allows more
information to be spread. New methods of farming, ways of
cooking, new gadgets and inventions. New technology. Clever
and motivated people bring these things about and put them out
there. The rest of us just accept them.
Chain Saws and Other Machines
As an example, one of the most damaging inventions ever
was the engine, particularly the internal combustion engine, the
benefits of which are not actually beneficial to the planet when
the wider picture is seen. And what is a benefit? It seems to be
something which helps perpetuate the human race, by making
it easier to live more comfortable healthier and longer lives, produce
more things and increasing the strains on the planet.
The existence of the internal combustion engine itself depends
upon a whole raft of environmentally disastrous industries.
The power hungry industry making steel for the engine
components by burning things like coal, oil, wood, waste gas
or nuclear for their manufacture. All of these are pollutants and
drive heat and temperature-raising gases into the atmosphere.
The organic mechanism which could offset this pollution,
trees, forests, woods and jungles, are themselves being destroyed
in large measure by those self same engines fashioned
into heavy industrial plant - chain saws, vehicles, road-making
and logging equipment, aircraft, lorries and ships.
Chain saws are the most obvious manifestations of the rapid
destruction of some of the elements which might just save the
planet, specifically the woods, forests and Jungles. And the tree