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

Mindless techno-fixes won't be our way out. Ultimately, real solutions to climate change need to be understood as being essentially political rather than simply technological, because new technology on its own won't improve anything without dramatically changing the context in which it is used. That applies especially strongly .. The issue really is whether we can act now to change how we live and apply the techno fixes in time. Techno or no techno, tho, it looks like we're up against it. When you think about the way Blind technological-optimism and faith in technological fixes for problems leads one to always focus on looking for a technological fix, thereby overlooking non-technological interventions. It's not about saving the world the way it is now, which is what a lot of these techno-fixes are about, because the way the world is economically and socially structured now has led us to climate change in the first place. 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 . VIDEO” Scientist Alan Robock, Rutgers University, meets with protesters before his scheduled session, “Can Geoengineering Save Us from Global Warming? Scenarios are not predictions, but examples, giving us a wind-tunnel to test out different strategies for managing large, complex problems. In fact, the entire field of geoengineering — a set of technologies that is aimed to try and combat rising temperatures by artificially cooling the planet, among other things — is highly controversial. I admit I tend towards the techno fixes (not so sure about the pretty things, tho. Many of us have opinions about technology that can be classified along the spectrum of being a “techno-optimist” or a “techno-pessimist” — categorizations that reflect our general attitude about our technological past, present, and future. Well, I guess best of luck to both of us, eh?