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Rousseau put forward a genealogy of ruin which traces the scientific and technical disciplines back to the vices human beings acquired when they left the state of nature: our greed, he argues, gave rise to mathematics; our unbridled ambition spawned mechanics; and our idle curiosity produced physics. Rousseau’s message was simple and compelling: the more we advance technically and intellectually, the more we regress morally. Progress is not only a mirage that humankind is foolishly chasing, it is our downfall.
Ie. Climate Change
