Is nature worth more attention than technology

Are you imagining a world in which technology and machines never were thought of / created? Are you imagining us, as human kind, in the present day foregoing our machines and getting back to nature? Are you imagining a different scenario from these two? Pro makes the comment "Wouldn"t we be better off without machines, without technology"" About eight years ago, I was dying. Without machines from the hospital and trained doctors to take care of me, I would have died. It pains me to write this; some people in the Republican Party would have preferred me to die than get medical help. This is to say, I would be much worse off without certain machines or certain technology. We agree about air pollution causing acid rain, the detrimental forces of nuclear bombs, global warming, and wars being fought over oil. We agree about wars cause more deaths and are more harmful to the planet. However, there is a difference between technology has only devastated nature and technology is the most detrimental force towards nature. The main difference is technology can be good, can be neutral, and can be bad. The technology that is bad is very harmful to the people, the plants, and to the ecosystem itself. Coal burning power plants, gasoline powered cars, the extreme inefficiency of packaging materials, the extreme amount of food waste in the wrong way [1], military weapons, and planned obsolesce are but some examples of bad technology. Innovators have addressed some of these issues. I have faith that the rest of these issues will be addressed by some future innovator. Innovation will be the key to the future. Some of these inventions have been cell phone towers (replacing phone lines), digital downloads / access (replacing mail, newspapers, VHSs, DVDs, Cassettes, and CDs), Tablets / Kindles (replacing books), hydrogen powered cars [2] (replacing gasoline powered cars), and solar power roadways [3] (if fully implemented would replace power plants) just to name a few. Some technology is both good and bad at the same time. Medical technology, as mentioned above, has been critical to my life. With the same stroke of the pen, medical technology has caused an overpopulation of this planet. If penicillin and other medical breakthroughs had not been discovered and the trend line for population growth had continued, then there would be roughly 2.7 billion people on the planet today. Medical technology, better nutrition, and better sanitation pared with people continuing to have roughly the same amount of children have been the causes of the explosion in the last 100 years. Medical technology has drastically improved the standard of life for humans. However, it led to population explosions around the world. While the number of people is increasing, the resources available have been steadily decreasing (which causes prices to go up). While the world not being ready for the expansive population growth is part of the problem, the main problem is these people either being ignorant or totally disregarding statistical data [4]. These huge groups of people show that innovation by itself is not enough. Government must make policy to address these issues. There will probably be some laws that people will not like, but we will need to have them to save the planet. [1] [2] http://www.washingtonpost.com... [3] http://www.wired.com... [4] I am sorry. This is not as philosophical as I want it to be " I felt rushed while writing it. I will try to be more philosophical with the rest of this debate.