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

Previous SectionNext Section .. Scenarios are not predictions, but examples, giving us a wind-tunnel to test out different strategies for managing large, complex problems. The issue really is whether we can act now to change how we live and apply the techno fixes in time. Tech optimists' crush of the decade is surely 3D printing. 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. As ecology crashes, tech dreamers cash in…Michael Huesemann, co-author of “Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment” interviewed by The Extraenvironmentalist. Techno fixes are nothing more than magical thinking. Overall, careful analysis of the prospects does not provide much confidence that technology will save us [25] or that gross domestic product can be disengaged from resource use [26]. 2012 Techno-fix: why technology won't save us or the environment. In a recent interview with Yale .. Population, especially after the events of 9/11. It's entirely possible that we will change our behavior/society/world (ahem), and also come up with fantastic new technologies; it's also possible that we'll stumble on both paths, neither fixing things in time nor getting our hands . The rejection of techno-fixes by greens is therefore about more than a basic scepticism that science can save us. For over 25 years, we've been serving up smart, observational and laugh-out-loud humor to help you make sense of our crazy world. You might not want to pin your hopes on nanotechnology, genetic engineering, or miracle drugs, says Michael Huesemann, author of Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. €�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. Arab Americans are one of the most misunderstood segments of the U.S. Humor Times: World's Funniest News Source Don't cry about the news, laugh about it, with the Im all for technology and for saving the climate, but the thing most seem to overlook is the impact on jobs. The plough evidently first expanded it and now appears to be reducing it [3].