Irish shops now stocking Gerry Mcgovern's 99th Day: A Warning About Technology

A number of Irish book stores are now stocking Gerry McGovern's extraordinary and timely book about ecological destruction,  99th Day: A Warning About Technology.

Published by Dagda, 99th Day sees the Irish author examine the irreparable damage we are doing to the beautiful, magical, wonderful planet that we inherited – and are busy destroying. It covers topics like: the calamitous toxic effects of mining, the sickening disease of over-consumption, the colossal waste of resources on Data Centres, the shameless con job that is Bitcoin, the criminal abuses in the rise of AI.

Every story told, every argument made, every hard truth revealed, is thoroughly researched, fully backed-up and meticulously documented. McGovern leaves no room for doubt about the approaching disaster, laying bare the cynicism, opportunism, ignorance and greed that are driving both private enterprise and public policy across the world right now.

"Gerry McGovern’s 99th Day: A Warning About Technology is a clarion call," said Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. "It is a meticulously argued, morally urgent book that reframes the energy- and material-hungry technologies of our age as not only technical problems, but ethical and ecological ones.

"It is a beautifully written, evidence-based, eye-opening, frightening page-turner. McGovern explains the damage done when the rich get richer by the destruction of our environment via the 'Growth Death Cult'. He makes it painfully clear why society needs degrowth to survive. The book highlights how greed, green colonisation, data colonialism, mining, Bitcoin, AI, data centres and amoral Big Tech behaviours trample all over the Rights of Nature and stomp all over fair-minded citizens, especially Indigenous peoples. McGovern shows us that 'slow decision making is wise decision making.' It is a wise book from a wise man. Big Tech will hate it. That’s why it is such an important book.

"McGovern writes with the clarity of a seasoned critic and the moral seriousness of an advocate. He refuses the comforting narratives of green tech and techno-optimism and instead traces, with forensic attention, the human and environmental costs of the mining, waste, and infrastructure that underpin our digital lives. The result is a book that is both a sustained indictment of corporate negligence and a powerful witness to the communities who pay the price."

99th Day: A Warning About Technology is a book that must be read. It offers a stark reminder that doing nothing is not an option. We have to act now – or risk the obliteration of the human species.

See the list of shops stocking 99th Day: A Warning About Technology below (the book is also available online via the Hot Press shop):

• Kennys Books (Liosban Business Park, Tuam Rd, Galway)
• Wexford Books Centre (5 S Main St, Wexford)
• O'Mahonys bookshop (Locations in Tralee, Limerick, and Ennis)
• Alan Hanna's Bookshop (270 Rathmines Rd Lower, Rathmines)
• Books Upstairs (17 D'Olier Street, Dublin)
• Charlie Byrne Bookshop (The Cornstore, Middle St, Galway)