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How do techno-optimists and pessimists differ in their ideas regarding the benefits and value of technology? Bergman adopts. a number of Heidegger's criticisms about technology. But unlike Heidegger, Bergman's disagrees that we should try to go back to a pre-technological attitude to mitigate against the negative aspects of technology. He embraces technology as a part of the experience of local things and practices Explain the role technology plays in Bergman that is different from Heidegger using an example. How does Reformist Environmentalism differ the Deep Ecology Movement Give the central difference and then elaborate two or three goals of the Deep Ecology Movement that Devall and other want to see actualized in the world.

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1) Techno optimist:

Mostly a techno-optomist see things like certain medicines and treatments and how they’re saved and improved lives. I see things like computers and the internet and how they’ve improved efficiency in communication and research and made it accessible to so many people. Look at how so many of the funds for Haiti have been sent, through text messaging certain numbers and donating an amount of money through your phone bill.

Techno pessimist:

Techno pessimist cannot agree that technology tends to make us better off. They argue instead that technology makes life easier. It makes it more comfortable for those who have the luxury of accessing it.

2)  Borgmann recommends the development or restoration of what he calls "focal things and practices" as a way of overcoming the device paradigm.

The role of technology is to liberate humanity from the misery and toil associated with dominating the world; to enrich human life. Liberation and enrichment require availability, which entails that it be instantaneous, ubiquitous, safe, and easy.

Borgmann distinguishes between Things and Devices. The point of technology is to identify commodities we are trying to attain, and provide them for us. The problem is that to think of the various things which we rely on to provide our basic needs as simply a means to acquiring an end, is to see these things as devices.

Heideggers Says "In our time, things are not even regarded as objects, because their only important quality has become their readiness for use. Today all things are being swept together into a vast network in which their only meaning lies in their being available to serve some end that will itself also be directed towards getting everything under control.

3) Deep ecologist :  Deep ecologists is nice, but it perhaps ignores that humans are mammals and all mammals are at their core self-interested.

Reform Environmentalism: Reform environmentalism it seems that his main cause for concern is the predicament of green consumerism.

During the period 1978-1981, California sociologist Bill Devall and philosopher George Sessions further developed the shallow deep ecological distinction and used it as a basis for classifying and describing the various ecophilosophical positions.

Shallow Ecology movement:

Fight against pollution and resource depletion.
Central objective: the health and affluence of people in the developed countries.

Deep Ecology Movement:

Rejection of the man-in-environment image in favor the relational, total-field image. Organisms as knots in the biospherical net or field of intrinsic relations.

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