Shut Down the Internet: Unplugging the Network of Death, Reweaving the Web of Life

We are told that digital tools like AI will solve the world’s greatest challenges, but what if they are actually the source of our problems? Driven by profit and the myth of infinite growth, the tech sector is actively accelerating the climate crisis. To survive, we must disconnect.

Researcher and activist Alistair Alexander exposes the unavoidable environmental devastation caused by our digital dependency. He confronts the delusional techno-optimism that prevents us from stopping our descent into planetary chaos and argues that the internet has misguided assumptions deeply embedded in its architecture that cannot be rectified.

Shut Down the Internet shows how and why we need to power down our obsession with technology and its false promises. Offering an alternative vision of networks—one based on meaningful connection and ecological regeneration—it turns the demand to disconnect from an individual gesture of sacrifice into a collective action that builds a better world.