Why We Distrust Technology

The prevailing narrative emphasises social change: reducing consumption, altering human behaviour, and enforcing collective restraint.

As a result, when confronted with modern challenges, we instinctively default to social regulation over technological adaptation.

Few today can conceive of how energy revolutions might render current emissions concerns obsolete.

The underlying assumption is that suffering is virtuous that real change requires sacrifice, restraint, and a return to a simpler way of living.

This moral framing naturally privileges social solutions over technological ones.

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