Technology is not upper hand on nature

Technology is a concentrated mean to serve human’s self-interest. Reacting to the environmental problem is also one of the self-interest based activity. The big trend of environmental conscience is not derived from acknowledging the dignity of the nature, but from the threat that we feel from the environmental change.
We commonly believe that human is superior to other species on the earth and technology seems to prove it. Technology provides us the notion that we can do something about the nature and it is better than letting the nature cure itself. We totally underestimate the nature’s ability of self-recovery. That is why it is hard for us to yield to nature to do that. It drives our tendency to think that the technology will fix the environmental problem. It seems to work well to reduce human effect on environment because it fixes the tangible problems. We are likely to find the side-effect later in the future though. We can’t really see the side-effect when we create the solution in the first place.
Take the ozone depletion example. There are two possible solutions to restore the ozone layer; the first one is exposing the chemical material to build up the ozone layer and the second one is banning the causations of ozone layer depletion like CFCs. These solutions look the same; both of them are human decision, but there is a huge difference in terms of a technology. The first solution represents our belief in technology. It is true. We can build up the ozone layer with our promising technology like we make a dam to control the nature. But in trying to preserve the ozone, there might be some side effect of our decision. On the other hand, the second solution is our acknowledgement that nature can heal itself. Nature functions to stay in its original design. If we let nature be as it is, then it would cure itself from the damage by human. Natural recovery does not bring any side-effect. It always goes back to how god initially created.
Technology is the key idea that allows our creative destruction without having to stop our activities. People always see the damages and output of environmental change. The solution may be found if for we do not concentrate on the result of environment change, but rather think about the causes of it. How many people would interpret the hurricanes, floods and rising sea level as god’s message? No. People would rather expect technology to save us. We should have realized by now technology cannot restore the earth back to the way it was.