Table 1. Some characteristics of
the basic worldviews.
Technological
optimist
Technological skeptic technical progress can deal with technical
progress is limited and
any future challenge ecological carrying capacity
must be preserved
competition cooperation
linear systems with no discontinuities complex, nonlinear systems with
or
irreversibilities discontinuities and
irreversibilities
humans dominant over nature
humans in partnership with nature
everybody for themselves
partnership with others
market as guiding principle market as servant of larger goals