TY  - BOOK
AU  - Symons,Jonathan
TI  - Ecomodernism: technology, politics and the climate crisis 
SN  - 9781509531196
AV  - TD 171.75 .Sy67 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Climate change mitigation
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Green technology
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-218) and indexes; The thirty years crisis -- Ecomodernism and its critics -- Assessing the technological challenge -- The politics of low-carbon innovation -- Human flourishing amid climate harms -- Global social democracy and geoengineering justice
N2  - Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future. However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature.

In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision. Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism. Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth. --; From the Publisher
ER  -