With a combination of scientific rigor and passionate advocacy, Brand shows exactly where the sources of environmental dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society.
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With a combination of scientific rigor and passionate advocacy, Brand shows exactly where the sources of environmental dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover First Edition, 1st printing in Like New condition with a nice, crisp Like New jacket. The covers are in great shape. The binding is square and tight. Small abrasion to the front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is real and is pushing us toward managing the planet as a whole. Urbanization half the world's population now lives in cities, and eighty percent will by midcentury is altering humanity's land impact and wealth. And biotechnology is becoming the world's dominant engineering tool. In light of these changes, Brand suggests that environmentalists are going to have to reverse some longheld opinions and embrace tools that they have traditionally distrusted. Only a radical rethinking of traditional green pieties will allow us to forestall the cataclysmic deterioration of the earth's resources. Whole Earth Discipline shatters a number of myths and presents counterintuitive observations on why cities are actually greener than countryside, how nuclear power is the future of energy, and why genetic engineering is the key to crop and land management. With a combination of scientific rigor and passionate advocacy, Brand shows us exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society. In the end, says Brand, the environmental movement must become newly responsive to fast-moving science and take up the tools and discipline of engineering. We have to learn how to manage the planet's global-scale natural infrastructure with as light a touch as possible and as much intervention as necessary. 325 pages.
I admire Stewart Brand because he has spent his life identifying and advocating important ideas. The first half of Brand?s Whole Earth Discipline is especially compelling. His writing is quick and declarative. He is at his best when he presents authoritative ideas as simply as he does in this book. Stewart Brand?s best writing?The Whole Earth Catalogs, How Buildings Learn, and Whole Earth Discipline?always challenged his readers to improve ourselves and the places we live through learning, and planning for the future. Significantly, he re-writes the Whole Earth Catalog?s introduction in this book stating ?We are as gods and HAVE to get good at it? (as opposed to ?We are as gods, and might as well get good at it?). By recognizing that we have more of a responsibility than simply a capability to improve ourselves through learning, Brand shows how urgent the climate change crisis is, and, I think more clearly than he previously has, he shows that we learn for our common, not our individual, good. That said, there is nothing sentimental about learning in Brand?s writing. I felt that the weakest part of this book was where he admitted to making the mistake of thinking there would be a Y2K crisis. I know that it is essential to learning to admit mistakes, and Brand admits his as plainly as he states his best ideas. Still, I felt uncomfortable reading Brand confess his error. If his thinking about urbanization, nuclear power, and biotechnology required his reader to commit to less transformational ideas, than he may have been able to sugar coat his errors more. Perhaps it is more important that he didn?t. Brand is a creditable thinker because he does not sentimentality produce environmental platitudes. I?m going to find opportunities to advocate Brand?s thinking, and I will find friends to lend my copy of this book to
