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TEDTalks: Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'

By grrlscientist on July 15, 2009.

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The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate. You've GOT to watch the video of the train going through the poor part of town in Bankok -- it's amazing! [16:42]

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I was fortunate enough to meet Stuart, Jill and Paul Stamets at SciFoo 08 along with a number of other TED talkers and continue to speak with some of them regularly. It's still strange & humbling to me that I "know" these people.

Years ago I read EF Shumacher's Small Is Beautiful and it didn't strike me as realistic.

I don't agree that wind and solar energy is un-storable, however. In most Southern states, an installation that did nothing but chill water would pay for itself in no time at an industrial park or college campus.