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Christoph Becker is Associate Professor of Information, Director of the Digital Curation Institute, and a member of the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. He is also cofounder of the Karlskrona Initiative for Sustainability Design.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Just Sustainability Design 1
I Is Computing Insolvent?
1 The Design of Sustainability 29
2 Just Sustainabilities and the Debts of Computing 57
3 The Myths of Computing 77
4 Problemism: The Insolvency of Computational Thinking 109
II Restructuring
5 Computing's Critical Friends 127
6 Software is Never Neutral: How Do Values Become Facts? 153
7 People are More Than Rational: Beware the Normative Fallacy 167
8 Problems are Framings: The Discordant Pluralism of Just Sustainability Design 193
III Reorienting Systems Design
9 Leverage Points for Change: From Insolvent Computing to Just Sustainability Design 213
10 Critical Requirements Practice 225
11 Searching for Just, Sustainable Design Decisions 255
12 A Silicone Ring: Social Responsibility and Collective Action 279
Conclusion: This Changes Computing 297
Notes 307
References 323
Index 371