Solutionism

Someone has given a name, solutionism, to a cultural characteristic that plays a key role in my work on sustainability. Reading the NYTimes today I noticed an [article](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinion/sunday/the-perils-of-perfection.html?ref=opinion&_r=0&pagewanted=all) in the Review section by Evgeny Morozov, entitled, “The Perils of Perfection.” Morozov is the author of *To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism*. The title suggests that this is a book I should (and will) get and read closely. Here is his point in a nutshell: > All these efforts to ease the torments of existence might sound like paradise to Silicon Valley. But for the rest of… Read More

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