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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen, Vincent F. Hendricks
May 2009
Beginner
592 pages
22h 39m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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IV Technology and Environment

Technology has had a tremendous impact on nature. Technologies have been, in the hands of man, a destructive tool. We are today facing the severest consequences imaginable. As forecasts go, it is only going to get worse. Rescue and damage control also lie in our best technologies at hand. Only by developing intricate instruments can we detect pollution and build complex enough models of the forthcoming developments caused by global warming, global dimming and the greenhouse effects. In this part, management, science and technology are intimately joined.

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