I think the most interesting application of this "test" would be to add another dimension to movies. If art imitates life and vice versa, what does this say about culture? Can movies be made more interesting by adding a new dimension that is not now adequately explored? Instead of seeing this as an issue of feminism versus chauvinism versus neither, or a minority in power versus the majority out of power, it should be seen as an opportunity for entrepreneurial individuals to score some low hanging fruit and blaze a cultural trail.
The internet is a driving force for economies, and healthy economies beget infrastructure development which is needed for clean water, food, and medicine. Try substituting "roads" for internet. Your argument against its utility turns into:
"We shouldn't build roads because they need medicine, food, and water, first."
High technology will give Africans access to information which will help them solve their problems.
I think they're just hedging their bets since if there aren't aliens, it doesn't matter, and if they are, then they have to appear to have predicted correctly the state of the alien's spirituality to fit in with their (the Catholic's) view of reality.
Yeah, well, safety is safety. There is a such thing as diminishing returns and if you tried to be 100% green the effort would probably not be worth it.
"We shouldn't build roads because they need medicine, food, and water, first."
High technology will give Africans access to information which will help them solve their problems.