Technology, be it nano or nana, offers us a bright ray of hope for dealing with the problems plaguing our world, everything from wind & solar power to water jackets on wood fuel stoves. Each of these tools can be used to make current processes more efficient, or perhaps create new processes to do things in different ways.

In environmental terms, a reliance on technology to save ‘our necks’ is known as the Promethean response after the mythological figure. Prometheus was a champion of mankind who was known for his particularly wily intelligence. He stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Hence the parallel with technological solutions to our modern problems.

However the Greek myth ended poorly with Prometheus chained to a rock, destined to have his liver eaten by an eagle every day for eternity. In the same way we should be wary of relying purely on technological solutions but consider this to be an aspect of the ‘whole’ solution.

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