ABSTRACT
For a while the development of modern Western society, driven by the trinity of science, technology and economy, seemed to pave the way to progress in the form of a growing quality of human life. However, what once started out as a respectable attempt at revealing the secrets of nature in order to put them to work in an orderly fashion for the benefit of humankind, has developed into an accelerating maelstrom driven by a mutually reinforcing self-dynamic of the components of this trinity. There does not seem to be any time left to pursue things carefully and cautiously nor perhaps any willingness to do so. The largely unintended consequences of this race beyond any reasonable limits
make themselves felt as an ecological crisis which in its scope and intensity is unprecedented and endangers our long-term survival.
