Progress

[RWStanding]

Progress
The term ‘Progress’ is used by almost everyone without any clear definitions, and therefore to suit their own vanity.
Progress for the particular is not at the same as holistic progress.
The particular can be any thing, or any purpose.
Holistic the whole of a society or humanity or our local and global ecosystems.
It can be whatever suits the purpose or policies of those who command society. Whatever suits free individuals and families in the mass. Or for the whole of society corporately. Nothing to do with progress is simply Right or Wrong in an ethical sense, except within the purpose.
Ethical progress and technological progress are very different creatures.
If we do not control technology, to the point of outright banning of a technology or a creation, then the Human Footprint on the world will be so immense and pervasive as to destroy nature, and leave us as machines in oxygen tents, eating analog food. Or simply a depleted world of happy compromise.
There is for instance, a vast difference between flying taxis being used for limited humanitarian purposes – and flying cars being a right for everyone to use and own, from their private backyards.
If we believe that nature is expendable then we have a predictable future.

[Impenitent]

who is to say that the entire purpose of the human species wasn't to introduce plastic into the ecosystem...

-Imp

[mickthinks]

who is to say that the entire purpose of the human species wasn't to introduce plastic into the ecosystem...

-Imp

Everyone with a smattering of sense.