"Allen’s aversion to nature, what can be called biophobia, is increasingly common among people raised with television, Walkman radios attached to their heads, and video games and living amidst shopping malls, freeways, and dense urban or suburban settings where nature is permitted tastefully, as decoration. More than ever we dwell in and among our own creations and are increasingly uncomfortable with nature lying beyond our direct control."
This quote stuck out to me because it pretty much sums up where this generation is going. We are becoming more technological and are becoming extremely uncomfortable with nature. I for one can admit to being a part of this; I am very uncomfortable with nature and it's because I was raised in more of a technological environment than one that is a part of nature. This doesn't have to be the end result for everyone though. I have seen families ensure that their children can enjoy both the luxury of technology as well as be a part of nature and know its benefits and how to survive in it. I think it's best to have future generations to partake in both nature and technological advancements to make sure its not just one sided.
"Compared with earlier cultures, our distinction lies in the fact that technology now allows us to move much further toward total domination of nature than ever before."
It's an inevitable fact that we certainly have the technology to dominate nature or will have to power in the future to replace nature with technology. The part that scares me is that there are actual thoughts about this happening but this is not a good thing. With technology replacing nature, where would our natural resources come from? How would we know that what we are putting in our bodies is all natural? I feel if technology takes over nature, all food produced with more technological methods will become cheaper and anything that is really from nature will become way more scarce and more expensive, leading us to resort to the cheaper and unhealthier foods.
“Nature and I are two,” filmmaker Woody Allen once said, and apparently the two have not gotten together yet (Lax, 1992, pp. 39–40). Allen is known to take extraordinary precautions to limit bodily and mental contact with rural flora and fauna. He does not go in natural lakes, for example, because “there are live things in there.” The nature Allen does find comfortable is that of New York City, a modest enough standard for wildness.
This quote definitely stuck out to me in the beginning of the chapter and it had me thinking, why is nature and technology so separate. Why can't nature and technology coexist with each other, better yet can nature and technology coexist with each other, or are human being the reason why they cannot coexist. Nature and Technology both have their advantages and disadvantages, but humans always seem to side with either or and never seem to make the two coexist. This has been a war since technology was first introduced to the world. I then went on to do some research and came across this Ted video that explained that technology is basically going to replace and become nature. The speaker explains how with humans trying to ensure the protection of nature we might actually flood the world of technology instead.
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