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Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment Michael Huesemann, Joyce Huesemann
Publisher: New Society Publishers

He brings things to light that I have never really thought about. And partly from seeing how talk of techno-fixes almost always defaults to a circle-jerk that's really focused on how we can keep enabling our ongoing stupidity. €�We cannot afford to foreclose powerful technological options like nuclear, synthetic biology, and genetic engineering because of Luddite prejudice and ideological inertia,” he writes in The God Species. It often seems like they don't just not believe that technology can help save us—but rather they don't want to believe it. To recap I'm not sure what, but certainly I see that you are buying into a techno-fix solution for everything, and that of course will end in tears, because we are reaching the end of what technology can do, given that we are surpassing the planetary limits of sustainability. Many of the most committed environmentalists Maybe the technofix can occupy the moral high ground after all. However, they can be summed up as just another set of techno-fixes, pushing us further down the same path that we've stumbled along to enter our present environmental crisis. In class we watched a video of a gentlemen discussing his book, Huesemann, Michael, Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment. One cause for optimism is that new approaches to 'biofortification' are beginning to offer hope of improved strategies with the potential to save tens to hundreds of thousands of lives per year. In a recent interview with Yale .. The rejection of techno-fixes by greens is therefore about more than a basic scepticism that science can save us. More on Sustainability, Strategy and Morality Why Environmental "Hypocrisy" Is Irrelevant and Inevitable · Democrats release draft legislation Texas won't allow Tesla to sell electric cars directly. Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment is a book which I inter library loaned. As environmental ideas have entered the zeigeist, mostly thanks to global warming--and still mostly focused on that issue--plenty of technology companies are lining up to tell us how they're helping green/save/clean the environment. I'm sorry, but that sounds insane and won't fly without some references.