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

Our guest will be Michael Huesemann, coauthor of a book titled Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment. I highly recommend the landmark and must read book Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment by Michael Huesemann, Ph.D. In Hamilton's thinking, geoengineering is the latest example of our hope that “techno-fixes” will rescue us from global warming. Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment by Michael and Joyce Huesemann, New Society Publishers, 464 pp, $24.95. Instead, we take the so-called easy way (though it won't be easy in the long-term) out: fall back on some technological fix (even though the technology is what is causing the problem). 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. The world order built on the economic fundamentalism of greed, commodification of all life, and limitless growth, and the technological fundamentalist belief that there is a technological fix for every social and environmental ill are clearly .. Tech optimists' crush of the decade is surely 3D printing. We haven't quite realized that this faith, that technology will save us from the problems that technology has created, was sold to us by people with a deep interest in this outcome. We'll ask Michael to explain and support this dramatic assertion. 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. 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. Techno fixes are nothing more than magical thinking. Scenarios between 1,000 to 100,000 plant and animal species disappear each year, which translates into 2.7 to 270 irreversible extinctions everyday” (Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment [New Society Publishers, 2011]). He points to large—and, he says, . Fortunes hinge on our capacity to treat each of these .