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Title: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Author: Stewart Brand
Category: Audiobook
Narrated By: Johnny Heller
Duration: 13:04:35
Type: MP3
Size: 359.2 MB
Bitrate: 64 Kb/s
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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 80 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 long held 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.
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