Gaia's web : how digital environmentalism can combat climate change, restore biodiversity, cultivate empathy, and regenerate the Earth / Karen Bakker.

By: Bakker, Karen J [author.]
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262048750; 0262048752Subject(s): Environmentalism -- Effect of technological innovations on | Information society -- Environmental aspects | Information technology -- Environmental aspects | Green technologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.7/06 LOC classification: GE195 | .B354 2024GE195 | .B354 2024Online resources: Full text is available at ProQuest Ebook. Central Click here to view
Contents:
Part I : Regenerating -- Wiring Gaia -- The algorithmic ocean -- Facebook for wildlife -- Hacking climate -- A Digital Green New Deal -- Part II : Instantiating -- A parliament of earthlings -- On the blockchain, no one knows you’re a forest -- Empathy machines -- Biocyborg kin.
Summary: "This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I : Regenerating -- Wiring Gaia -- The algorithmic ocean -- Facebook for wildlife -- Hacking climate -- A Digital Green New Deal -- Part II : Instantiating -- A parliament of earthlings -- On the blockchain, no one knows you’re a forest -- Empathy machines -- Biocyborg kin.

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"-- Provided by publisher.

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