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“They expressed “confidence in the ability of humans and their technologies to overcome any problems—including environmental problems” and to “shape the natural world for [humanity’s] own benefit.”36 Desrochers and Szurmak identify four main arguments against population controls. First, “a larger population that engages in trade and the division of labor will deliver greater material abundance per capita.” Second, “human creativity can deliver increasing returns.” Third, “standards of living are not constrained by local resources.” Fourth, “past achievements are grounds for cautious optimism.”37”
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
“For Simon, “Everyone designs who changes existing situations into preferred ones” (p. 129).”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
“Our studies suggest that when the world gets better, we become harsher critics of it, and this can cause us to mistakenly conclude that it hasn’t actually gotten better at all. Progress, it seems, tends to mask itself.”133”
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
“When he accompanied me and others to conferences, he would never show up at breakfast or even at the opening talks of a conference. We asked him why not. He explained that he used his mornings to write papers. He also added that he never wasted his time by reading newspapers or listening to news. Why? He told us, “If anything important is happening, my friends will tell me.” His work that has had the most impact on designers is the book The Sciences of the Artificial.”
― Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
― Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
“One philosopher, Karl Popper, contended that the limitations of the inferential, experimental method, which characterized science since Bacon, could not establish the truth of a proposition; it could only eliminate the alternative explanations that were tested.13 Thus, “truth” was tentative, waiting to be modified or even upended by the next set of experiments. The other, Thomas Kuhn, contended that, in fact, scientists were not objective seekers of truth, but rather, engaged in confirming the current “truth,” what Kuhn called the prevailing “paradigm” in the discipline. In the practice of what Kuhn called “normal science,” scientists were merely elaborating on this paradigm or using it to explain away any anomalies in their findings. It was only when anomalies accumulate to the point of crisis, when the current paradigm can no longer hold up, that the science opens to new, revolutionary ways of thinking that replace the old.”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
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