Dan Clemmensen writes:
 
 
 > >  > Are transhumanist technologies environmentally sound? 
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.
 > > 
 > > 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.
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