Will the oil disaster in the gulf help us to see that the dominant approach to economics and the environment–which is a technological fix–will not help? There’s a lot of talk in the press and on the blogs about the loss of absolute faith in technology that the ongoing inability to stop the gushing will cause. At the very least, let’s hope that this situation takes the wind out of the sails of geo-engineering and nuclear energy. We need to trust small scale, decentralized, safe technologies not the centralized ones favored by the large corporations.
While we’re on the question of technology, I’m on one of the world’s great ones, the train, where I’m heading down to Washington, DC to do the Diane Rehm show. (It’ll be live this morning at 11 am). I wanted to let you know about a new piece I’ve written which is at changethis.com, an interesting site that features business... (read more...)
