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Mike Joy's new memoir, The Fight for Freshwater , is out now.
The freshwater ecologist says he is frustrated with the way we’re living on Earth .
Joy says he used to believe a techno-fix was over the horizon, but doubts technology’s ability to save us.
His newest fixation is degrowth.
The only way out, he explained, is down: eliminating superfluous energy uses.
He said this way of life largely hinges on people not knowing any alternative.
Mike writes about the experience as one defined by the rawness of nature.
He wondered why people would go tramping on holiday to get away from it all and then be scared about the idea of simplifying their life at home.
Much of the second half of his book describes the myriad ways the agriculture industry has undermined, obfuscated and sidestepped his research into Aotearoa ’s declining freshwater health.
After two decades at Massey University , even the halls of Palmerston North became hostile as his department merged with the agriculturists.
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