Is technology and environmentalism compatible? Is technology neutral?

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Originally Posted by Fosus

This is not true. If (for example) US government stopped all those wars for resources, they could not go to space anymore for the exact reason of not having enough resources to do so. This applies to every country who have already used their own resources. Earths resources are limited, in time space travelling will become much more difficult.

To in the long run sustain space travelling the resources must be taken from other bodies in space (the moon, asteroids, comets, other planets and so on). It is rather improductive to use the Earths resourses for space travelling.