Posted by: maxine | March 2, 2007

Stewart Brand - An Early Environmentalist

Stewart Brand - John Tierney - An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’ - New York Times

Stewart Brand has become a heretic to environmentalism, a movement he helped found, but he doesn’t plan to be isolated for long. He expects that environmentalists will soon share his affection for nuclear power. They’ll lose their fear of population growth and start appreciating sprawling megacities. They’ll stop worrying about “frankenfoods” and embrace genetic engineering.

He predicts that all this will happen in the next decade, which sounds rather improbable — or at least it would if anyone else had made the prediction. But when it comes to anticipating the zeitgeist, never underestimate Stewart Brand.

(read more at the NYT link)

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FYI: Mr. Brand has also endorsed my insider novel of nuclear power, Rad Decision, as an lay person’s guide to the topic. Available free online, and also now in paperback. http://RadDecision.blogspot.com

“I’d like to see Rad Decision widely read.” - Stewart Brand

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