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保守派和其他一些人提倡更多的「地方自治」。地方社區曾經有自治權,但當地方社區變得越來越陷入並依賴大規模的系統,例如公共設施、電腦網絡、高速公路系統、大眾傳播媒體或現代醫療保健系統等等,這樣的自治變得越來越不可能。在一地施行的技術經常影響其他很遠地方的人們這件事也是另一個阻撓自治的原因。所以在一條小溪附近用殺蟲劑或化學物質可能會汙染幾百里以外的下游水源供應,或是溫室效應影響全世界。
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Conservatives and some others advocate more “local autonomy.” Local communities once did have autonomy, but such autonomy becomes less and less possible as local communities become more enmeshed with and dependent on large-scale systems like public utilities, computer networks, highway systems, the mass communications media, the modern health care system. Also operating against autonomy is the fact that technology applied in one location often affects people at other locations far way. Thus pesticide or chemical use near a creek may contaminate the water supply hundreds of miles downstream, and the greenhouse effect affects the whole world.
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