The Ninth Threat to Sentience: Technocide

While the first six Threats are owing to Mother Nature, the final Three are due to our own nature; our propensity to kill ourselves off. As previously blogged, the Seventh and Eighth Threats of Genocide and Ecocide are well under way. And now, the Ninth Threat of Technocide is looming.

Technology can get us in many ways. We can use it to facilitate Genocide a.k.a. nuclear and chemical/biological weapons of mass destruction.

 

 

Or it can accelerate and abet Ecocide, namely through massive clear cutting, over fishing and farming, and climate change.

 

But, like a drug, it can also make us so dependent that we couldn’t live without it. Not many of us, me included, know how to farm, hunt, or fish. Infrastructure is the first target of war (just look what at we did to Iraq). And Power Grids are wide open to terrorists and hack-attacks. What will we do if food doesn’t show up at our local supermarket and water doesn’t run from our taps? I know many who might not even survive the loss of their air conditioners and cell phones!

Then again, technology might just take over and exterminate us.

 

 

In any event, technology is a double-edged sword; we can’t survive the first six Threats without it, but we may not survive ourselves if we use it.

 
Clearly, only a wise and spiritually strong species will make it. But many of the same people who can't hunt or fish want to leave our fate to Divine Providence. To survive the Nine Threats to Sentience, we must all ask the Six Questions of God. Stay tuned.