This post was initially written in French, La technologie nous sauvera-t-elle ? I feel as though I keep hearing, more and more often, that climate change is above all a problem of innovation. Emissions continue to rise, targets keep slipping out of reach, yet we fill our collective imagination with carbon-capture machines, artificial intelligences supposedly able to optimize the transition, and even technologies designed to alter the climate itself. There is nothing absurd about such confidence in itself, and technology will very likely help. … <a href=“https://freakonometrics.hypotheses …