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Searching for a ‘technofix’ to climate change has many dangers. Could radical humility save the planet?

By Nanda Jarosz, Researcher, Environmental Philosophy, University of Sydney

In 1989, environmentalist Bill McKibben announced to the world that nature was dead. Due to the rapid rate and scale of anthropogenic climate change, he argued, the idea of nature as an entity independent of human activity had become obsolete.

Review: Brave New Wild: Can Technology Really Save the Planet? – Richard King (Monash University Publishing)

A new book by Richard King, Brave New Wild:…

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