Green Dreams

Why Technology Can't Save the World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

309 kr

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Electric cars, smart apps, green AI, carbon capture, solar panels—everywhere we turn, we’re told technology will save the planet. Green Dreams shows why that promise is so compelling, and why it keeps us chasing solutions that leave the real causes of the climate crisis untouched.Blending cultural criticism, political analysis, and environmental history, Green Dreams traces the rise of green techno-optimism from postwar fantasies of progress to Silicon Valley manifestos, EV marketing, Big Tech sustainability campaigns, and Hollywood eco-futures. Along the way, it exposes the hidden costs of supposedly “clean” technologies: extractive mining, exploding energy demand, ecological destruction, and the preservation of systems built on endless growth and consumption. Rather than rejecting technology outright, Tanner Mirrlees and Imre Szeman argue that technological solutions can matter only if paired with deeper social, political, and economic transformation. Provocative, accessible, and sharply argued, Green Dreams offers a powerful critique of one of the defining ideologies of our time.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-04
Mått138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350443174

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Why is every little territory of our lives colonised by devices? And why has technology invaded the planet, as the only force capable – so we are told – of keeping it liveable and getting global warming under control? In this pellucid and pithy essay, Tanner Mirrlees and Imre Szeman strip away the illusions around dead things supposed to be green – EVs, carbon capture, clouds, AI and much more – connect them to the far right and Hollywood, write the history of the cult and critique of modern tech and, most importantly, insist on shaking off this preoccupation. Only if living human beings rediscover their freedom to shape the world can it become less destructive. Essential reading for an age saturated with gadgets.