Needs

Human beings need air, water, food, exercise, sleep, sex, and shelter to maintain health. That's it. Human beings do not need computers, cars or designer clothing. Technology, driven by capitalism, promotes unessential materials as needs and minimizes the worth of basic needs. Air is polluted. Water is polluted. Exercise is deemed irrelevant. Sex is packaged with romance or breeding to sell products. Sleep disturbances are promoted to sell sleep aides. Technology, corrupted by capitalist greed, promotes as much illness (want) as health (need).

When Humanists praise science and technology, I believe it is wise to be very specific where the praise is being directed. "It's all good." is a slogan for the flippant, inebriated or mesmerized.  I would prefer to be seen as a pro-Humanism Scientist than as a pro-Science Humanist. There is a profound difference between the two.