Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution to our climate crisis – it isn’t

Rod Janssen climate change, climate policy, climate risk, technology May 28, 2021

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Published May 28, 2021

2 thoughts on “Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution to our climate crisis – it isn’t”

Steve Thorne says:

May 28, 2021 at 17:35

Rod the IPCC has a definition of technology that includes software and orgware as well as hardware. The management of energy is in the definitions. But what I understood from the IIEC years back they referred to hardware being 20% of the solution the balance is management and behaviour!

On Fri, 28 May 2021, 5:17 pm Energy in Demand – Sustainable Energy – Rod Janssen, wrote:

> Rod Janssen posted: “With the climate crisis, Peter Sutoris argus this > moment calls for humility – we cannot innovate ourselves out of this mess. > The problem with believing technology is the solution is that it focuses on > the symptoms, not the causes of environmental decay. ” >

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1. Rod Janssen says:
  
  May 28, 2021 at 17:55
  
  Thanks for this Steve. This helps understand more. Curious that they actually came up with 20% for technology. Right now we are readying that the US needs technology breakthroughs to make their long-term near zero targets. We’ll see.
  
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