Technology and Nature are Historically Interconnected
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BY ALEX SHASHKEVICH
Stanford historian Mikael Wolfe argues that technology and nature are usually thought of as opposites, but he advocates for what is known as an envirotech approach to the historical relationship between the two – technology and the environment should be seen as interconnected.
Image: Mikael Wolfe (Image credit: Yovanna Pineda)
In his recently published book, Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico , Wolfe examines Mexican land and water distribution from the 1920s to the 1960s through such an envirotech lens. He argues that the efforts to redistribute resources were unsustainable because of people’s overenthusiastic belief in technology’s power to fix social problems as well as their environmental side-effects.
SOURCE: https://news.stanford.edu/2017/12/31/technology-nature-historically-interconnected/
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