Stewart Brand on "Environmental Heresies"
I've been a Stewart Brand fan ever since 1981, when I bought my now well-worn copy of The Next Whole Earth Catalog. He has curiosity and talent for "thinking outside the box" that transcend his 1960s counterculture persona.
In this MIT Technology Review article, Brand ventures beyond the box of today's typical environmental thinking:
"Environmental Heresies""That’s why the Amish, the most technology-suspicious group in America (and the best farmers), have enthusiastically adopted GM crops."
"The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it."
"The only technology ready to fill the gap and stop the carbon dioxide loading of the atmosphere is nuclear power."
The Technology Review blog has also posted a follow up to the article, in which Brand debates the benefits of nuclear energy with former Department of Energy official, Joseph Romm. (Warning: The debate becomes repetitive after the first few posts.)
posted by Mike Laursen @ 5:00 PM
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Regarding Stewart Brand's May, 2005 commentary on environmental issues such as nuclear power, readers may be interested to know that Mr. Brand has recently endorsed my techno-thriller novel of nuclear power, Rad Decision, available at http://RadDecision.blogspot.com . As a twenty year veteran of the nuclear industry, I can provide a first-hand account of how nuclear plants operate and how they would respond to an accident. Such an insider view has never been presented before. This is available at no cost to the reader at my website.
“I'd like to see RAD DECISION widely read.” - - Stewart Brand.
Regards,
James Aach
RadDecision.blogspot.com
Your novel sounds interesting, James. I'll put it on my reading list. Thanks!
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