The dream of World Peace II

 

 

And another quote from this week’s reading:

We must create at the same
scale as we can destroy. The counterforce
to the scale of destruction is the scale of
communication, and . . . our legacy or epi-
taph will be determined in many ways by
our ability to creatively employ informal,
multimedia, multicultural, conversational,
telecommunications and information tech-
nologies.

Create what exactly? Scale of what destruction?  How is the rate of deforestation in the amazon being counteracted? How is communication technology counteracting the rate of extinction of our species on land, air and sea? How is the excavation of unthinkable amounts of minerals to build our communication infrastructure actually acting as a counterforce to “destruction”. Or is destruction in the name of telecommunications and information technologies allowed?