Sustainability Advocate and Writer Jeb Taylor discusses the Complex Relationships Between Humans and Tech

This latest book from Jeb Taylor begins with an arresting big-picture view of the difficulty of addressing major societal problems: Humanity is, for the most part, technologically progressive and always striving to go from one mechanical advancement to the next, but it’s also often socially conservative and unwilling to embrace wholesale ideological change: “Nearly every problem that threatens civilization today,” Taylor writes, “from suicide bombings and wars—to pollution and overpopulation, can be traced directly or indirectly back to the disparity that exists between progressive technological development and conservative social behavior.” Taylor stresses that many of the world’s current difficulties, from violence to rampant environmental degradation, demand a change to the latter, or “comprehensive global interdependency and cooperation.”
 
Since the adoption of agriculture 10,000 years ago, humanity has become materially progressive—yet remains socially conservative. We have failed to adopt appropriate progressive social behavior when sophisticated technologies emerged. This is what Jeb Taylor emphasizes in his book “A Handbook for Humanity: Seeking Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century.”
 
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A Handbook for Humanity: Seeking Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century
Author | Jeb Taylor
Publisher | (Self-published)
Published Date | August 28, 2019
Genre | Environmental and Social Awareness
ISBN-13 | 978-0-578-54644-5
Paperback Price | $8.99
e-Book Price | $3.49
 
 
About the Author
 
Jeb Taylor recognized the unsustainable nature of modern technology at a young age and began to reject the status quo. When he was 14 he attempted to stow away on an ocean liner to Australia, at 18 he spent a winter alone in the Alaskan wilderness learning aboriginal survival skills, and at 19 he canoed down the Yukon River picking up additional survival skills from Athabascan Indians. For all of his adult life, Taylor has maintained a very low impact life style—at times utilizing only stone tools. Eventually he realized that it was the irresponsible use of technology—not technology per se that was the problem, and began to seriously consider how modern technology could be utilized sustainably. He is passionately interested in Native American material cultures and is the author of the highly regarded book “Projectile Points of the High Plains.” He currently lives on the Salmon River in western Idaho where his is restoring an old stage station.

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