Kendrick Hardaway

Sep 29, 2023 | resilience.org | Kendrick Hardaway |John Mulrow |Tamar Sarai |Tom Dispatch

In Chicago, the great dome atop the Museum of Science and Industry rotunda is emblazoned with these words:Science discerns the laws of natureIndustry applies them to the needs of manThe inscription’s lofty rhetoric hides a powerful assumption that is broadly internalized in industrial societies today: that the “needs of man” are unlimited, and that nearly anything humans aspire to build is permissible.