By Stewart Brand"Trained as a biologist and spectacularly well read and traveled, Brand is the entrepreneurial mastermind behind the Whole Earth Catalog, Wired magazine, and the Global Business Network. He now brings all his knowledge and creativity to the complex problems of climate change. Designating himself an ecopragmatist, he argues agilely that we must become "benevolent ecosystem engineers" and expand our definition of infrastructure to include both river and bridge. Nuclear power is the answer to our energy needs, Brand avers, and explains why at length, then does the same as he advocates for genetic engineering. Urbanization is the greenest form of human life, says Brand, and he even celebrates the ecology of the squatter cities that ring the planet's megalopolises. Here, Brand declares, human ingenuity triumphs; waste is eradicated, and opportunities arise. Brand's reasoning is lucid if disturbing, his perspective genuinely global and realistic. " (Booklist Reviews)
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