An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
by Steward Brand
- Author(s)
- Steward Brand
- Publisher, year
- London : Penguin, 2009
- Scope
- 338 p., 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780670021215
Why dense cities, nuclear power, transgenic crops, restored wildlands, and geo-engineering are necessary. Steward Brand, co-author of the seminal 1969 Whole Earth Catalog, compiles reflections and lessons learned from more than 40 years as an environmentalist in this clumsy yet compelling attempt to inspire practicable solutions to climate change. Brand haphazardly organizes his manifesto into chapters that address environmental stewardship opportunities, exhorting environmentalists to become fearless about following science; his iconoclastic proposals include transitioning to nuclear energy and ecosystem engineering. Brand believes environmentalists must embrace nuclear energy expansion and other inevitable technological advances, and refreshingly suggests a shift in the environmentalists' dogmatic approach to combating climate change.
- Location
- Ecological Architecture
