Whole Earth Discipline
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planetAccording 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.
ISBN: 9781101148037
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Jack Dorsey
Technology"Incredible book by @stewartbrand. Best I’ve read this year. “Cities are green. Nuclear energy is green. Genetic engineering is green.”"
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Steven Pinker
Science & Research"An allusion to [the author]'s groundbreaking 'Whole Earth Catalog,' which merged technology with the counterculture and encouraged global consciousness."
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Marc Andreessen
Finance & Investing"On why even environmentalists should be pro building, pro cities, pro nuclear, and pro genetic engineering."
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Matt Ridley
Science & Research"Describes how one of the things he did was spawn a back-to-the-land movement with people growing their own vegetables and forming communes."
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Patrick Collison
Business & Entrepreneurship"Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
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