Dual-use technologies deserve a mention --- @Aura, I agree science could provide solutions to some of the global challenges we've been discussing. However, science itself has the potential to create newer problems, at least over time. If we consider plastics, they have become ubiquitous in our lives from grocery bags to computer accessories to vehicles to toys. Here's a nice article of the origin story of plastics - https://www.sciencehistory.org/the-history-and-future-of-plastics, and how they've now become a huge problem, literally - https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/. Similar concerns exist in my own field of life sciences as WHO cautions here - https://www.who.int/activities/ensuring-responsible-use-of-life-sciences-research. Scientific 'progress' is inevitable, but is not free of negative consequences.

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