Environmentalism

Stewart Brand Speaks 'Environmental Heresies' At Long Last

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Environmentalist icon Stewart Brand, famously the publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, speaks "Environmental Heresies" in the current Technology Review. While Brand continues to exaggerate concerns about man-made global warming and invasive species, he now urges his fellow Greens to recognize that the population explosion is a bust and that biotechnology and nuclear power are green technologies.

I can't resist an "I told you so" here since I've been saying the same things about population and biotech and nuclear power for a long time. It's nice that Brand finally agrees.

Call me a crazy optimist, but I think that Brand is right when he says, "Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbanization, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power."

Hat tip to Wayne Crews for the link.