Technology will save us all...and dreams will come true

Technology will not solve our current environmental predicament. I think it will only prevent it from growing at the exponential rate that it is now. As technology improves and reduces our 'footprint' on the environment, it has not found a way to reverse the damaging effects we have caused over the past few hundred years.

Automotive technology, for example, is advancing at rates that have not seen since the gas shortage of the 1970's. Then, we changed from large, heavy, powerful cars to smaller, more efficient ones. Currently we are seeing another automotive revolution where we are moving towards cars that use hybrid or ethanol technology. These progressions, while good for reducing emissions will not reverse the effects of the past, with Hummers that get very few miles per gallon.

These technologies will have an effect on us as consumers however. As of now, a hybrid car is more expensive than its gas counterpart. Technology needs to advance to a point where it makes things better and at the same time is readily available to all consumers. Once that happens technology will help us more and only then will we really start resolving our environmental crisis.