Techno-Fix

Author: Michael Huesemann
Edition: Original
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0865717044

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 increasing load of social, environmental, and economic ills. Download Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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.

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