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Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Sep 28th, 2010
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.38in - 5.52in - 0.81in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9780143118282
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Environmental Conservation & Protection - General• Development - Sustainable Development
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What people are saying
Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
Michael Shermer reviews “Whole Earth” by John Markoff, a biography of the brilliant and lovable Stewart Brand. (I highly recommend Whole Earth Discipline.) https://t.co/gHKRxfxIUf via @WSJBooks
Batteries and clean energy infrastructure @ Rev Renewables. Interested in everything. Personal account.
@dbiello Important mostly for personal reasons because of the pivotal time I read them (undergrad) and subsequent choice of a career in clean energy: *Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand *Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman I've been meaning to re-read and see how they hold up.
Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
Michael Shermer reviews “Whole Earth” by John Markoff, a biography of the brilliant and lovable Stewart Brand. (I highly recommend Whole Earth Discipline.) https://t.co/gHKRxfxIUf via @WSJBooks
Batteries and clean energy infrastructure @ Rev Renewables. Interested in everything. Personal account.
@dbiello Important mostly for personal reasons because of the pivotal time I read them (undergrad) and subsequent choice of a career in clean energy: *Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand *Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman I've been meaning to re-read and see how they hold up.