There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine technology improvements per se do not necessarily reduce our impacts because we immediately double down on how much we use.
Kim Stanley RobinsonThe sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Kim Stanley RobinsonOne of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley Robinson