home, school, and legislature.RICHARD HEINBERG American journalist, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, and author of ten influential books including The Party's Over. Peak Everything, and The End of Growth.In Techno-Fix, Michael and Joyce Huesemann show us how unsustainable and destructive technologies, shaped and driven by the profit motive, have emerged as a major cause of harm to the health of people and the earth. We need to go beyond a blind Techno-religion. We ourselves need to choose the tools that shape our lives. A vibrant and vital democracy needs people's participation in technology choice. Techno-Fix shows how.VANDANA SHIVA New Delhi based environmental and anti-globalization activist, philosopher, author of 20 books including Soil not Oil and Staying Alive, and recipient of numerous international awards.Salvation by technological advance and unlimited growth is the blind dogma of our age. The Huesemanns provide a devastatingly cogent and well-referenced critique of this modern Gnosticism, as well some good alternative ideas. Highly recommended!HERMAN DALY Former Senior Economist at the World Bank, Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Maryland, and author of many influential books, including Steady-State Economics and Ecological Economics.Techno-Fix deals with a wide range of issues at the core of the sustainability crisis, showing that these problems are not going to be solved by technical advances which leave the fundamental structures and values of rampant consumer society in place. It presents a detailed and powerful case, based on extensive references to supporting studies and evidence, and expressed in a clear and easily readable style. The alarming problems now accelerating on many fronts are not basically technical problems. They are mostly created by the mistaken goals we have chosen to pursue, especially the pursuit of limitless affluence and economic growth. Unfortunately mainstream thinking seems to be about as far from recognizing this as it ever was, and its main support derives from faith in technology. It seems to be generally believed that our wizard scientists will come up with ways whereby we can all go on merrily getting richer with no end in sight, and the poor of the world would rise to live as we do. This book provides a very effective refutation of this willful, deeply entrenched and rarely questioned delusion. Among the book's virtues is that it goes beyond technical issues to consider the social, economic and philosophical dimensions of our predicament, pointing convincingly to many areas where radical rethinking of goals and means is urgently required.TED TRAINER Austrialian environmental and sustainability activist at the University of New South Wales, author of The Conserver Society and Transition to a Sustainable and Just World, as well as numerous other books and articles.This book is outstanding, the most thorough, clear, systematic refutation that I've seen of the absurd idea that new technology will be our saviour against advancing ecological breakdown. The authors show that technology is far more the problem than the solution, and no big new techno-Utopian tinkering will change that. Far more than a technological revolution, the authors argue, we need a conceptual revolution; one which recognizes that our fantasies of