Technology

The number of people on the planet who have access to communication technologies is overloading servers. The number of people on the planet who demand to be fed has led to using poisonous technologies to produce cheap food in volumes which deplete the planet's soil. The number of people on the planet who require fresh water drains aquifers, already stressed by the pollution created to support heating, light and cooking for the world's human population.

Technology cannot magically replace the elements and compounds which are the physical foundations of reality as we know it in this universe. Matter/energy cannot be created or destroyed. For example, drinking water cannot be made without using water or its component parts. The technology of desalinizing water, for example, is complicated and costly, requiring energy which must come from somewhere and has its side effects on the planet.

Technology is the new religion. Just like the old religion, it is doomed to disappoint when population and materialism grow out of control under global corporate capitalism. Traffic jams in Brazil, China and India with gas-guzzling and polluting engines are growing, not diminishing. Those who trust in technology while throwing out the basics of physics and biological science in ecology are doomed to destruction.