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Whole Earth Discipline

Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary

By Stewart Brand

By Stewart Brand

By Stewart Brand

By Stewart Brand

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Category: Science | Technology

Category: Science | Technology

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Sep 28, 2010 | ISBN 9780143118282

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Sep 28, 2010 | ISBN 9781101483411

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    About Whole Earth Discipline

    “Incredible book . . . Best I’ve read this year.” —Jack Dorsey, via Twitter

    This eye-opening book by the legendary author of the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog persuasively details a new approach to our stewardship of the planet. Lifelong ecologist and futurist Stewart Brand relies on scientific rigor to shatter myths concerning nuclear energy, urbanization, genetic engineering, and other controversial subjects, showing exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offering a bold, inventive set of policies and design- based solutions for shaping a more sustainable society. Thought- provoking and passionately argued, this is a pioneering book on one of the hottest issues facing humanity today.

    About Whole Earth Discipline

    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.

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    About Stewart Brand

    Though honored as a writer—with the National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, Eliot Montroll Award for The Media Lab, Golden Gadfly Award for his years as editor of CoEvolution Quarterly—Steward Brand is primarily an inventor/designer. Trained as a… More about Stewart Brand

    About Stewart Brand

    Though honored as a writer—with the National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, Eliot Montroll Award for The Media Lab, Golden Gadfly Award for his years as editor of CoEvolution Quarterly—Steward Brand is primarily an inventor/designer. Trained as a… More about Stewart Brand

    Product Details

    Category: Science | Technology

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 28, 2010 | 352 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143118282

    Category: Science | Technology

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 28, 2010 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781101483411

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    Praise

    Praise for Whole Earth Discipline:

    “One of the most important Green tracts since Silent Spring.” —Fortune 
     
    “I believe the world must have, and soon, a series of debates on the many inconvenient challenges facing us, employing a small number of intelligent, provocative texts at the core, and this should be one of them.” —Edward O. Wilson
     
    “A lucid and provocative polemic, focusing on large scale fixes for a planet in jeopardy.” —The Boston Globe
     
    “Likely one of the most original and important books of the century.” —Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest
     
    “This book is truly important and a joy to read.” —James Lovelock, author of The Revenge of Gaia
     
    “A brilliant, elegant treatise by a veteran defender of the Earth’s health.” —Ian McEwan, author of Solar

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