Comments on: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment

By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:50 +0000

[…] and governments greenwashing business-as-usual in sometimes inventive ways, and the lure of techno-fixes including risky geo-engineering proposals to tinker with our global climate. The fundamental flaw […]

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By: Book review – Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 16 May 2024 15:13:33 +0000

[…] addressing the environmental polycrisis we face boils down to addressing our values. No amount of technofixes and scientific advances are going to salvage the situation if “the global Westernized economy […]

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By: Book review – The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:18:49 +0000

[…] rather than later. At its most obscene, continued emissions are accompanied by promises of unproven technofixes that will mop up all this excess carbon in the near future. Why is this still being promoted? It is […]

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By: Book review – The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:13:54 +0000

[…] the vortex. This involves environmental laws and policies that are often compromises and, notably, techno-fixes. We turn to technology and science to provide solutions but questioning the underlying system is […]

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By: Book review – Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:05:19 +0000

[…] will create a greener, better world” (p. 244). To me, this is effectively advocating for a technofix. Science and technology have an important role but will not be enough by themselves; I have […]

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By: Book review – Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:13:54 +0000

[…] I appreciate Monbiot’s pragmatism, I disagree. The ideas explored here are all techno-fixes which only get you so far. In my opinion, cultivating an ethos of self-limitation has to be part of […]

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By: Book review – A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:09:51 +0000

[…] by one of his previous books, Bryce firmly believes technology will continue to save the day. I am sceptical, also because increasing efficiency rarely reduces overall consumption. He writes that “we […]

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By: Book review – The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:55:06 +0000

[…] solving pollutions, promoting recycling, dilution (think smokestacks), and the hollow promise of technofixes, but never questioning production itself. And how politicians, influenced by generations of […]

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By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:19:10 +0000

[…] and overconsumption are at the root of many environmental problems. I ask you: since when have technofixes ever caused us to want less of something? Since when, as she mentions throughout this book, have […]

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By: Book review – The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:43:51 +0000

[…] will see in 2025” (p. 219), I cannot help but wonder how much of this an endless rat race of techno-fixes that are doomed to fail. Nevertheless, Abraham’s envisioned solution is not to shy away from […]

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