Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2026
During March, 2023, the first edition of this book, No Miracles Needed, was published. The premise of the book was we had 95 percent of the technologies needed to solve the air-pollution, climate, and energy-security problems the world faces and knew how to create the rest. As such, we did not need miracle technologies to solve these three problems, contrary to what at least one well-known technologist and many pundits have claimed and what several industries have pushed for. Fast-forward two years, and what has changed? The useful technologies we need – clean, renewable electricity and heat generators; energy storage equipment; and electric devices, machines, and vehicles – have increased in number, become more efficient, penetrated deeper, and decreased in cost. A path also exists for them to solve 80 percent of the three problems by 2030 and 100 percent by 2035–2050 at low cost while creating jobs and using similar or less land than the current energy system. Meanwhile, proposed miracle technologies, now largely promoted by fossil-fuel interests, agricultural interests, and nuclear interests, have done nothing but delay a solution and simultaneously increase air pollution, carbon dioxide emissions, fossil-fuel mining, fossil-fuel infrastructure, and/or costs. This new edition, which reexamines what we need to solve the three major problems, concludes that fortunately, there are Still No Miracles Needed.
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