Luddites and atavists can lament this trend all they want and beg us to return to simpler and, at least in the fairy tales, better times. But, to no avail, we LOVE our cars. Likewise, television not only allowed us to have top flight entertainment piped right into our homes, but also is homogenizing the various subcultures into one dominant culture. In fact, it is in the process of transforming the entire world culture into a single mega-culture. And so on and so forth.
Agriculture causes desertification.
DDT destroys eagles. Many thoughtful people have come to the conclusion that change, or at least the rate of change, must lessen. They note correctly that change is always difficult for both individuals and cultures. If we could just slow it all down, the theory goes, we would have time to properly evaluate all the suggested changes and keep catastrophes from occurring. And later, in our spare time, we will learn to predict and to alter the weather.