Re: FAQ: TRANSHUMANISM AND NATURE

Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:47:36 -0400

Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Nick Bostrom writes:

> > Are transhumanist technologies environmentally sound?
>
> If you define environment as current ecosystem, no.
>

Transhumanist technologies have the potential to preserve existing ecosystems. Reasonable non-transhuman extrapolations of existing human culture have no chance of preserving the current ecosystem.