Technosphere Safety- profile"transport security".
The Technosphere is more simply defined as the human-made world.
And at some point in the future, the Technosphere could even function without humans.
Just as long as goods and services are consumed, the Technosphere can continue to grow.
Because if we believe we can't slow down the growth of the Technosphere, then why bother?
It's not just that we give tacit consent to the Technosphere by using its roads, computers, or intensively farmed food.
As defined so far, there appears nothing to stop the Technosphere liquidating most of the Earth's biosphere to satisfy its growth.
Coined by US geoscientist Peter Haff in 2014, the Technosphere is the system that consists of individual humans,
human societies- and stuff.
It's that by being a productive member of society, by earning and spending,
above all by consuming, we further the Technosphere's growth.
While flying less, cutting down on eating meat and dairy and cycling to work
are all commendable steps to take, they do not constitute living outside the Technosphere.
My fear, however, is that we will
not be able to slow down the growth of the Technosphere even if we tried- because we are not actually in control.
But if we continue to frame the situation in terms of“us against them”, of human well-being trumping everything else in the Earth system,
then we may be effectively hacking away the best form of protection against a dangerously rampant Technosphere.