technosphere in A Sentence

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    Technosphere Safety- profile"transport security".

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    The Technosphere is more simply defined as the human-made world.

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    And at some point in the future, the Technosphere could even function without humans.

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    Just as long as goods and services are consumed, the Technosphere can continue to grow.

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    Because if we believe we can't slow down the growth of the Technosphere, then why bother?

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    It's not just that we give tacit consent to the Technosphere by using its roads, computers, or intensively farmed food.

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    As defined so far, there appears nothing to stop the Technosphere liquidating most of the Earth's biosphere to satisfy its growth.

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    Coined by US geoscientist Peter Haff in 2014, the Technosphere is the system that consists of individual humans, human societies- and stuff.

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    It's that by being a productive member of society, by earning and spending, above all by consuming, we further the Technosphere's growth.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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