Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary
What's it about
Are you an environmentalist who feels like the old solutions are failing? What if the very things you were taught to oppose—like nuclear power, GMOs, and dense cities—are actually the keys to saving our planet? This book flips the script on conventional green thinking and offers a bold, pragmatic roadmap. Discover a controversial but data-driven argument for embracing technological and urban solutions to climate change. You’ll learn why Brand, a legendary environmentalist, now advocates for these once-taboo tools, providing a powerful new framework for effective, real-world ecological stewardship in the 21st century.
Meet the author
Stewart Brand is the visionary creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, the counterculture icon that TIME magazine described as the intellectual forerunner of the internet. A lifelong environmentalist and systems thinker, Brand has spent decades at the intersection of technology, culture, and ecology. This unique perspective, evolving from his back-to-the-land roots to embracing pragmatic, large-scale solutions, directly informs his provocative and essential arguments for rethinking environmentalism in the face of climate change.
The Script
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