"Such technofixes for the climate, in fact, lead us down a dangerous road, both because they displace far safer and more reliable options—namely the clean energy transition—and because they provide an excuse for business-as-usual burning of fossil fuels."
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Such technofixes for the climate, in fact, lead us down a dangerous road, both because they displace far safer and more reliable options—namely the clean energy transition—and because they provide an excuse for business-as-usual burning of fossil fuels."
Lots of false technofixes in the agribusiness sector
Don’t fall for the hype. Vertical “farms” are not a food security or climate solution.
globalecoguy.org/no-vertical-...
globalecoguy.org/no-vertical-...
No, Vertical Farms Won’t Feed the World
While they are well-intentioned, new indoor “farms” won’t help feed the world or reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture. We would…
globalecoguy.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Lots of false technofixes in the agribusiness sector
Stan for climate technofixes and the tech is "the bus."
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Stan for climate technofixes and the tech is "the bus."
"Lack of imagination" regarding the ways in which things can go wrong plus overconfidence in the infallability of technofixes is a dangerous combination.
July 19, 2026 at 4:23 AM
"Lack of imagination" regarding the ways in which things can go wrong plus overconfidence in the infallability of technofixes is a dangerous combination.
Michael Mann on Bill Gates:
"Gates’ dismissiveness in this case wasn’t a one-off. It was part of a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested."
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
"Gates’ dismissiveness in this case wasn’t a one-off. It was part of a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested."
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Michael Mann on Bill Gates:
"Gates’ dismissiveness in this case wasn’t a one-off. It was part of a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested."
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
"Gates’ dismissiveness in this case wasn’t a one-off. It was part of a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested."
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Today in “restoring ecosystems to fix the biodiversity and climate crises instead of praying to the wizard for expensive technofixes” news:
Reintroducing wolves will help expand woodlands and sequester carbon.
Their whole job is culling deer. For free.
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2494003...
Reintroducing wolves will help expand woodlands and sequester carbon.
Their whole job is culling deer. For free.
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2494003...
Reintroducing wolves could 'expand woodland areas and reduce CO2'
The reintroduction of wolves to Scotland could lead to the natural expansion of woodland and help combat climate change, according to a new study
www.forestryjournal.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Today in “restoring ecosystems to fix the biodiversity and climate crises instead of praying to the wizard for expensive technofixes” news:
Reintroducing wolves will help expand woodlands and sequester carbon.
Their whole job is culling deer. For free.
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2494003...
Reintroducing wolves will help expand woodlands and sequester carbon.
Their whole job is culling deer. For free.
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2494003...
In the middle of the UK heatwave, Michael Walker from @novaramedia.com invited me to talk about This Changes Everything, 12 years later. Sobering stuff, but also surprising, like when he blamed me for spending a night in prison in Copenhagen...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mICe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mICe...
Naomi Klein On Heatwaves, China, and The Danger Of Technofixes
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2026 at 12:13 AM
In the middle of the UK heatwave, Michael Walker from @novaramedia.com invited me to talk about This Changes Everything, 12 years later. Sobering stuff, but also surprising, like when he blamed me for spending a night in prison in Copenhagen...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mICe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mICe...
Paraphrasing @wolvendamien.bsky.social, et al:
YOU CAN'T TECHNOFIX YOUR WAY OUT OF A MATERIAL BELIEF AND SOCIAL VALUES ISSUE.
And medicine and "healing" are often deployed as technofixes.
YOU CAN'T TECHNOFIX YOUR WAY OUT OF A MATERIAL BELIEF AND SOCIAL VALUES ISSUE.
And medicine and "healing" are often deployed as technofixes.
People just need to understand that "healthcare"/medicine is not an instant solve for the complexities of being disabled in an ableist society. Crip tax is real, even with universal healthcare.
Over 12K a year extra to live. in a country with so-called universal healthcare Have a source with data
Over 12K a year extra to live. in a country with so-called universal healthcare Have a source with data
Disability Price Tag 2024 | Disability charity Scope UK
The Disability Price Tag 2024 report reveals the extra costs disabled people and their families face.
www.scope.org.uk
June 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Paraphrasing @wolvendamien.bsky.social, et al:
YOU CAN'T TECHNOFIX YOUR WAY OUT OF A MATERIAL BELIEF AND SOCIAL VALUES ISSUE.
And medicine and "healing" are often deployed as technofixes.
YOU CAN'T TECHNOFIX YOUR WAY OUT OF A MATERIAL BELIEF AND SOCIAL VALUES ISSUE.
And medicine and "healing" are often deployed as technofixes.
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
Dejligt at se, at også folk på den yderste højrefløj er blevet trætte af technofixes på klimakrisen :)
December 4, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Dejligt at se, at også folk på den yderste højrefløj er blevet trætte af technofixes på klimakrisen :)
Naomi Klein On Heatwaves, China, and The Danger Of Technofixes.
🇬🇧 youtu.be/mICeyoJyYhk?...
@novaramedia.com
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
🇬🇧 youtu.be/mICeyoJyYhk?...
@novaramedia.com
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
Naomi Klein On Heatwaves, China, and The Danger Of Technofixes
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
July 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Naomi Klein On Heatwaves, China, and The Danger Of Technofixes.
🇬🇧 youtu.be/mICeyoJyYhk?...
@novaramedia.com
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
🇬🇧 youtu.be/mICeyoJyYhk?...
@novaramedia.com
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
Public health also needs, as @edyong209.bsky.social wrote here, to reclaim its radical roots and move beyond a narrow, technocratic approach that privileges biomedical technofixes over social reforms and ambitious community action. 10/
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
www.theatlantic.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Public health also needs, as @edyong209.bsky.social wrote here, to reclaim its radical roots and move beyond a narrow, technocratic approach that privileges biomedical technofixes over social reforms and ambitious community action. 10/
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
'In plaats van de nadruk te leggen op technofixes die in een verre toekomst wellicht een klein deel van het probleem kunnen aanpakken, had het ministerie zich beter kunnen richten op de fundamentele vraag. Hoe kunnen we het vliegverkeer reduceren?'
June 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
'In plaats van de nadruk te leggen op technofixes die in een verre toekomst wellicht een klein deel van het probleem kunnen aanpakken, had het ministerie zich beter kunnen richten op de fundamentele vraag. Hoe kunnen we het vliegverkeer reduceren?'
Die fossile Lobby hat es nicht nur geschafft jegliche Ordnungspolitik die Verhaltensänderung verbunden ist zu verunmöglichen sondern sogar die einfachen Technofixes durch einen Kulturkampf zu emotionalisieren.
Ein Auto fährt
Eine Heizung heizt
Strom ist Strom
Wo ist das Problem?
Ein Auto fährt
Eine Heizung heizt
Strom ist Strom
Wo ist das Problem?
June 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Die fossile Lobby hat es nicht nur geschafft jegliche Ordnungspolitik die Verhaltensänderung verbunden ist zu verunmöglichen sondern sogar die einfachen Technofixes durch einen Kulturkampf zu emotionalisieren.
Ein Auto fährt
Eine Heizung heizt
Strom ist Strom
Wo ist das Problem?
Ein Auto fährt
Eine Heizung heizt
Strom ist Strom
Wo ist das Problem?
Every AI grifter keeps telling us that these technofixes will remove biases and make the world better but when we point out these examples they will say: the world was anyways already biased.
Prompted to match AAVE speakers w/jobs, AI was “less likely to associate them with any employment, compared with Standard American English speakers. When the AIs did match them with jobs, they tended to assign roles that do not require university degrees or were related to music and entertainment.”
AI chatbots use racist stereotypes even after anti-racism training
Large language models still demonstrate racial prejudice against speakers of African American English, despite the safety guard rails implemented by tech companies such as OpenAI
www.newscientist.com
March 7, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Every AI grifter keeps telling us that these technofixes will remove biases and make the world better but when we point out these examples they will say: the world was anyways already biased.
Agree and was struck by the same - the majority of the content and solutions discussed was fine (maybe a little wishful thinking on technofixes).
But the either/or tradeoff presented seemed short-sighted.
But the either/or tradeoff presented seemed short-sighted.
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Agree and was struck by the same - the majority of the content and solutions discussed was fine (maybe a little wishful thinking on technofixes).
But the either/or tradeoff presented seemed short-sighted.
But the either/or tradeoff presented seemed short-sighted.
Overshooting a global temperature rise of 1.5°C isn’t a license to gamble on technofixes that shift the burden to future generations. It’s a mandate to cut emissions now — starting with a rapid, just phaseout of fossil fuels.
September 2, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Overshooting a global temperature rise of 1.5°C isn’t a license to gamble on technofixes that shift the burden to future generations. It’s a mandate to cut emissions now — starting with a rapid, just phaseout of fossil fuels.
#FossilOfTheDay Award by @caneurope.bsky.social 18th Nov. at #COP29 goes to #SouthKorea.
Dishonourable mention for #Finland, whose technofixes attempt to hide their backsliding into #climate laggards.
Cartoon: Minister of Climate in Finland devours the #ClimateLaw
climatenetwork.org/resource/fos...
Dishonourable mention for #Finland, whose technofixes attempt to hide their backsliding into #climate laggards.
Cartoon: Minister of Climate in Finland devours the #ClimateLaw
climatenetwork.org/resource/fos...
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
#FossilOfTheDay Award by @caneurope.bsky.social 18th Nov. at #COP29 goes to #SouthKorea.
Dishonourable mention for #Finland, whose technofixes attempt to hide their backsliding into #climate laggards.
Cartoon: Minister of Climate in Finland devours the #ClimateLaw
climatenetwork.org/resource/fos...
Dishonourable mention for #Finland, whose technofixes attempt to hide their backsliding into #climate laggards.
Cartoon: Minister of Climate in Finland devours the #ClimateLaw
climatenetwork.org/resource/fos...
Geography matters. Technofixes won’t change poverty or environmental pollution, both of which are far bigger factors in health outcomes.
The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?
Thoughts, #medsky?
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?
Thoughts, #medsky?
June 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Geography matters. Technofixes won’t change poverty or environmental pollution, both of which are far bigger factors in health outcomes.
📣Join us tomorrow (14th November, 2pm) at the Peoples' Summit in Belem @COP30 to expose the scams of #technofixes! Mirante, Room/sala 305
@handsoffmotherearth.org @codingrights.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @ciel.org
@handsoffmotherearth.org @codingrights.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @ciel.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📣Join us tomorrow (14th November, 2pm) at the Peoples' Summit in Belem @COP30 to expose the scams of #technofixes! Mirante, Room/sala 305
@handsoffmotherearth.org @codingrights.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @ciel.org
@handsoffmotherearth.org @codingrights.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @ciel.org
Technofixes for problems caused by too much technology are obvious bullshit.
July 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Technofixes for problems caused by too much technology are obvious bullshit.
Kul i frit fald i kul-nationen Polen.
Vi er på vej. Det går bare ik hurtigt nok! Der satses stadig på technofixes, vi regner stadig biomasse som CO2-neutralt, forventer magisk CO2-negativ tech redder os i den sidste ende og ignorerer stadig adfærdsændringer!
Men det her er 🙌
#dkpol
Vi er på vej. Det går bare ik hurtigt nok! Der satses stadig på technofixes, vi regner stadig biomasse som CO2-neutralt, forventer magisk CO2-negativ tech redder os i den sidste ende og ignorerer stadig adfærdsændringer!
Men det her er 🙌
#dkpol
May 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Kul i frit fald i kul-nationen Polen.
Vi er på vej. Det går bare ik hurtigt nok! Der satses stadig på technofixes, vi regner stadig biomasse som CO2-neutralt, forventer magisk CO2-negativ tech redder os i den sidste ende og ignorerer stadig adfærdsændringer!
Men det her er 🙌
#dkpol
Vi er på vej. Det går bare ik hurtigt nok! Der satses stadig på technofixes, vi regner stadig biomasse som CO2-neutralt, forventer magisk CO2-negativ tech redder os i den sidste ende og ignorerer stadig adfærdsændringer!
Men det her er 🙌
#dkpol
Global industrial civilisation is collapsing due to ecological overshoot. Instead of deluding ourselves with fantasies of achieving sustainability through technofixes, we should focus on positive responses to the human predicament. 4/4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeY...
HTETEOTW Prologue: Why You Shouldn't Let Collapse Get You Down.
YouTube video by Sid Smith
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Global industrial civilisation is collapsing due to ecological overshoot. Instead of deluding ourselves with fantasies of achieving sustainability through technofixes, we should focus on positive responses to the human predicament. 4/4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeY...
So in my search for people who genuinely want to take act on all the causes of of ill health, & provide the kind of good local healthcare that patients want, & who can see beyond costly & unproven technofixes, spin & *league tables* (🙄) I joined the Green Party & we’re working on it right now (9/9)
July 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
So in my search for people who genuinely want to take act on all the causes of of ill health, & provide the kind of good local healthcare that patients want, & who can see beyond costly & unproven technofixes, spin & *league tables* (🙄) I joined the Green Party & we’re working on it right now (9/9)
Für den Merkur habe ich noch einmal aufgeschrieben, wieso Große Sprachmodelle politische Macht auf sich vereinen, weshalb sie demokratietheoretisch problematisch sind und warum diskursiven Technofixes zu misstrauen ist: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wer-...
September 1, 2023 at 8:48 AM
Für den Merkur habe ich noch einmal aufgeschrieben, wieso Große Sprachmodelle politische Macht auf sich vereinen, weshalb sie demokratietheoretisch problematisch sind und warum diskursiven Technofixes zu misstrauen ist: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wer-...