{"id":98,"date":"2009-12-07T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-02-21T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T07:03:03","slug":"98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2009\/12\/07\/98\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670021210?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rebuithetower-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0670021210\">Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rebuithetower-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0670021210\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Stewart Brand 2009<br \/>\n336 pages<\/p>\n<p>Brand, the founding editor of the influential Whole Earth Catalog charts a new course for he 21st century environmental movement taking a pragmatic approach to many issues dogmatically dismissed by traditional greens. \u00a0Cities, Nuclear, and Genetic Crops have been derided as the cause of many of the worlds problems. \u00a0Brand argues these are necessities for building a sustainable future for mankind. \u00a0He cites the incredible innovation and quality of life improving potential of some of the worlds biggest slums and cities. \u00a0While they may appear to be human\u00a0tragedies\u00a0they in fact represent the quickest way out of poverty for much of the world&#8217;s destitute. \u00a0Nuclear may leave behind some of the deadliest residue known to man, but it is entirely controllable and miniscule in scale compared to traditional energy sources. \u00a0New Nuclear technology will make this a necessary and efficient component of the transition away from fossil fuels which needs to happen as fast as possible. \u00a0Genetic crops are an ongoing battleground for many that cary the green banner. \u00a0Now more than ever the world needs cheap, abundant food that can withstand the threats of rapid climate change. \u00a0Only GM provides a means of preventing millions of starvation deaths. \u00a0The technology has been proven safe and it is now pure hubris on the part of the developed world to say that poor need to starve because we have moral qualms about a technology that WILL save lives. \u00a0Brand is first and foremost a pragmatist. \u00a0He\u00a0recognizes\u00a0the issues of the day and\u00a0argues for effective solutions, but most important, he is not afraid to change his mind as the situation does. \u00a0This is a must read for anyone concerned with building a sustainable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto By Stewart Brand 2009 336 pages Brand, the founding editor of the influential Whole Earth Catalog charts a new course for he 21st century environmental movement taking a pragmatic approach to many issues dogmatically dismissed by traditional greens. \u00a0Cities, Nuclear, and Genetic Crops have been derided as the cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}