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2 - Summary

7 - Chapter I: Introduction – Technoxation9 - Chapter II: The Techno-Fix Approach to Climate Change: Issues & Alternatives

Questions for assessing just and effective climate change mitigation technologies

Problems with techno-xationThe other parts of the solution - alternatives to techno-xation

15 - Chapter III: The Corporate Dominated Approach to Solving Climate Change

From denial to capture - corporations and climate changeWhat do corporations want?Carbon trading - how it works and its effect on new technologiesWhy corporations do not have the answer to climate change

23 - Chapter IV: The Technologies - Energy Provision

HydrogenAgrofuelsCarbon capture and storage / ‘Clean’ fossil fuelsNuclear powerSolar powerWind powerWater power - hydroelectricity, tidal power, wave powerBiomass

Decentralised energy vs. extending the grid

57 - Chapter V: The Technologies - Geoengineering

Albedo enhancement - reecting the sun’s energyRemoval of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

64 - Chapter VI: Conclusion66 - References

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