Por favor se comentar deixe um email para contato.Nao tenho nada a adicionar, depois do que foi posto abaixo, por Ted Trainer, Herman Daly, David Suzuki e outros, a mensagem e clara. Ou abandonamos nossa ilusao atual ou iremos enfrentar serias consequencias.HugoTECHNOFIX - WHY TECHNOLOGY WON T SAVE US OR THE ENVIRONMENTHuesemann & HuesemannThe nuclear disaster of Fukushima tragically confirms how right the authors are. (I would add: Where is nuclear energy defenders to go to Fukushima to help to clean the mess???)Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker German scientist, academician, parliamentarian, and author of influential books including Earth Politics and Factor Four; founder and former president of the Wuppertal Institute and member of the Club of Rome.Even as the impacts of technology destroy the ecosphere, the faithful preach that technology alone can salvage civilization. Enter Michael Huesemann and Joyce Huesemann. With Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment the Huesemanns have produced one of the most well-researched and possibly the best myth-busting book the environmental movement has ever seen. In a better world, it would be required reading for all elected officials and every student in every program at every university everywhere.WILLIAM REES Professor, University of British Columbia, originator of the concept of the ecological footprint and author of Our Ecological Footprint, fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and the Royal Society of Canada.Science and technology have advanced impressively over the past century but we have learned that often the benefits of new technology are accompanied by unexpected and deleterious consequences that we then attempt to solve using more technology with unpredictable effects. Thus, for example, we have altered the chemistry of the atmosphere with our use of fossil fuels and now hope that we can maintain our life styles, economies and consumption with the promise of geoengineering like carbon capture and storage, stimulating ocean algal growth, or spraying aerosols of sulfur dioxide in the sky. As this book shows, it is suicidal to put our hopes in such promises.DAVID SUZUKI Canadian environmental activist, professor emeritus, University of British Columbia, host of CBC's The Nature of Things, author of 43 books, recipient of 25 honorary doctorates as well as numerous awards, including the Order of Canada.We need to be mature enough to understand that technology alone won't be our salvation. This book helps explain why we need to think more deeply than that.BILL MCKIBBEN Journalist, environmental activist, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, author of many influential books and articles, including The End of Nature and Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.Technology has become our near-universal object of faith: new machines (whether solar panels or iPads) will solve all our problems! Few of us seem to understand that machines have in fact exacerbated most of our current environmental and social problems, and it is people who must provide the answers. It is our appetites and economic arrangements--not our gadgets--that must change if we are to survive. Michael and Joyce Huesemann argue this controversial thesis clearly, convincingly, and entertainingly. Their book deserves to be read and discussed in every