Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment by Huesemann, Michael

Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment

Techno-Fix questions a primary paradigm of our age: that advanced technology will extricate us from an ever...
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Author: Michael Huesemann
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Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment by Huesemann, Michael

Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment

Dhs. 136.86

Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment

Dhs. 136.86
Author: Michael Huesemann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Techno-Fix questions a primary paradigm of our age: that advanced technology will extricate us from an ever increasing load of social, environmental, and economic ills. Techno-Fix shows why negative unintended consequences of science and technology are inherently unavoidable and unpredictable, why counter-technologies, techno-fixes, and efficiency improvements do not offer lasting solutions, and why modern technology, in the presence of continued economic growth, does not promote sustainability but instead hastens collapse.

The authors explore the reasons for the uncritical acceptance of new technologies; show that technological optimism is based on ignorance and that increasing consumerism and materialism, which have been facilitated by science and technology, have failed to increase happiness. The common belief that technological change is inevitable is questioned, the myth of the value-neutrality of technology is exposed and the ethics of the technological imperative: "what can be done should be done" is challenged. Techno-Fix asserts that science and technology, as currently practiced, cannot solve the many serious problems we face and that a paradigm shift is needed to reorient science and technology in a more socially responsible and environmentally sustainable direction.

The readers of Techno-Fix will learn a number of inconvenient truths about science and technology, topics that are rarely, if ever, covered in the media or discussed among professionals. Readers will be challenged to re-examine their current worldview, their paradigms and assumptions about the so-called promises of modern technology. But they will also feel empowered and inspired by the fact that most problems confronting humanity have inherently simple, low-tech solutions.

The authors of Techno-Fix, both Ph.D.s, have decades of experience in science and engineering, and deliver a highly readable, insightful and powerful critique of modern technology.

Techno-Fix has been endorsed by Richard Heinberg, Bill McKibben, David Suzuki, William Rees, and other notables in the environmental and academic community.



Author: Michael Huesemann, Joyce Huesemann
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 10/04/2011
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.01w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780865717046


Review Citation(s):
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