Stewart Brand on 'Environmental Heresies'

FleaPlus writes "The MIT Technology Review has an article predicting where the mainstream of the environmental movement may likely reverse its collective stance in the next ten years. The four areas discussed are population growth, urbanization, genetically-engineered organisms, and nuclear power. The article is written by Stewart Brand, known for creating the Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL online community, and the Long Now Foundation. Brand also has some interesting comments regarding the sometimes-conflicting interaction between romantics and scientists in the environmental movement. There's an online debate between Brand and former DOE official Joseph Romm on TR Blogs." Frankly, unless humanity decides to undergo a massive collective personality change of not being consumption-focused, I don't see much other way around these particular issues. What we all need is an Arthur to keep us depressed and sleeping in darkened rooms to lower energy consumption.

Re:Bah, why bother?

[Anonymous Coward]

By 'well', do you mean using up the earth's resources to the point of our own extinction?
Dinos: "we died off after 300 Million years"
Joe Bob: "ha! We can beet that!"

Re:Pragmatism

[Anonymous Coward]

Environmental romantics == hippies?

Re:Soooooo

[kclittle]

The correct response would have been, "You must new here! :)"

Re:Soooooo

[Rude Turnip]

Wow, that's the first time I've seen the "you must be new here" post modded as Insightful. Someone get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? :)

Re:Soooooo

[2old2rockNroll]

Well, if you don't conserve on verbs, pretty soon we'll run out. Then what will we do? The only solution will be to continue verbing nouns at an ever greater pace.