Re: FAQ: TRANSHUMANISM AND NATURE

Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 19:21:35 +0400 (MSD)

Dan Clemmensen 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.

True, current development is not sustainable. Transhuman technologies _could_ preserve/rebuild virtually anything (and more), however, they can destroy a planetary ecosystem within minutes, if not seconds. So we cannot answer this question reliably, just now.

'gene