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 Lovins writes:
 :If nuclear power isn't needed, worsens climate change (vs. more effective solutions) and energy security, and can't compete in the marketplace despite uniquely big subsidies - all evidence-based findings unexamined in Stewart's chapter - then his nuclear imperative evaporates. Of course, a few countries with centrally planned energy systems, mostly with socialized costs, are building reactors: over two-thirds of all nuclear plants under construction are in China, Russia, India, or South Korea. But that's more because their nuclear bureaucracies dominate national energy policy and face little or no competition in technologies, business models, and ideas. Nuclear power requires such a system. The competitors beating nuclear power thrive in democracies and free markets.<ref>Amory Lovins, [http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-enthusiasm-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic/ Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic], Grist, 14 Oct 2009, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>
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 Monbiot commented on the Channel 4 programme, "Brand's approach, which the [Channel 4] film is based on, is not so much a new form of environmentalism as a new form of corporate consultancy: he appears to be seeking to shape the environmental debate to suit the businesses he works for."<ref>George Monbiot, [http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12636:environmentalists-respond-to-channel-4 C4's What the green movement got wrong: environmentalists respond], Guardian, 5 Nov 2010, acc 12 Nov 2010</ref>
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 *Married: 1966 Lois Jennings (marr. diss '72). Ryan Phelan 1983- . One son, Noah Johnson.
 *Career: 1960-62, US Army officer; '62-68 Created multi-media performances; '77-79; adviser to Jerry Brown; '88- co-founder and board member Global Business Network; '89 - Member board of trustees, Santa Fe Institute; '95 - co-founder, then president, The [[Long Now Foundation]]; 2000 co-Founder, All Species project. Publications: 1968-72, Founded, edited, and published Whole Earth Catalogue; '74 Two Cybernetic Frontiers; '87 The Media Lab; '94 How Buildings Learn; '99 The Clock Of The Long Now.<ref>Andrew Brown, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4233515,00.html Whole Earth Visionary], The Guardian, 4 Aug 2001, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref>
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 *Married: 1966 Lois Jennings (marr. diss '72). Ryan Phelan 1983- . One son, Noah Johnson.
 *Career: 1960-62, US Army officer; '62-68 Created multi-media performances; '77-79; adviser to Jerry Brown; '88- co-founder and board member Global Business Network; '89 - Member board of trustees, Santa Fe Institute; '95 - co-founder, then president, The [[Long Now Foundation]]; 2000 co-Founder, All Species project. Publications: 1968-72, Founded, edited, and published Whole Earth Catalogue; '74 Two Cybernetic Frontiers; '87 The Media Lab; '94 How Buildings Learn; '99 The Clock Of The Long Now.<ref>Andrew Brown, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4233515,00.html Whole Earth Visionary], The Guardian, 4 Aug 2001, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref>
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-Brand has become a champion of nuclear power and genetic engineering.<ref>John Tierney, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/earth/27tier.html An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’], New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref> He has argued for the acceptance of genetically engineered crops in organic food production.<ref>Hembree Brandon, [http://southeastfarmpress.com/news_archive/organic-farming-0803/index.html Lobbing brickbats: Baby steps toward acceptance of biotech in organics], Southeast Farm Press, 3 Aug 2009, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref> According to a New York Times article, he now "sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon."<ref>John Tierney, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/earth/27tier.html An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’], New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref>
+Brand is a champion of nuclear power and genetic engineering.<ref>John Tierney, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/earth/27tier.html An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’], New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref> He has argued for the acceptance of genetically engineered crops in organic food production.<ref>Hembree Brandon, [http://southeastfarmpress.com/news_archive/organic-farming-0803/index.html Lobbing brickbats: Baby steps toward acceptance of biotech in organics], Southeast Farm Press, 3 Aug 2009, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref> According to a New York Times article, he now "sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon."<ref>John Tierney, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/earth/27tier.html An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’], New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref>
 Brand is well known for promoting technical solutions to environmental and other problems. "We are as gods", he wrote in the first Whole Earth Catalog, "and might as well get good at it."<ref>Stewart Brand, [http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/1340/article/189/we.are.as.gods We are as Gods], Whole Earth, Winter 1998, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref> Brand has said that 30-40 years ago he was pushing space colonies, and he claims that if he'd known about GMOs then, he'd have been more than in favour: "30 to 40 years ago I think I would have said to all the genetic engineering stuff - hot dog!"<ref>[http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/12/26/book-stewart-brand-whole-earth-nuclear-power/ Book: Stewart Brand’s Strange Trip — Whole Earth to Nuclear Power], Interview with Stewart Brand by Yale Environment 360, Dec 26 2009, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>

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 ==What Stewart Brand got wrong==
 On November 4 2010 Channel 4 TV in the UK broadcast a polemic which attacked the green movement. Billed as a documentary<ref>Mark Lynas, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8108090/What-the-Green-Movement-Got-Wrong-A-turncoat-explains.html What the Green Movement Got Wrong: A turncoat explains], The Telegraph, 4 Nov 2010, acc 12 Nov 2010</ref> and fronted by [[Mark Lynas]] and Stewart Brand, the programme, called ''What the Green Movement Got Wrong'', blamed environmentalists for obstructing solutions to the energy crisis by opposing nuclear power, and for causing hunger and malnutrition in the third world by opposing genetically modified (GM) crops.<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/programmes/what-the-green-movement-got-wrong/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 What the Green Movement Got Wrong], Channel4.com, acc 12 Nov 2010</ref>
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	Brand's views on nuclear power, as detailed in his book, Whole Earth Discipline, have come under criticism from physicist Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge, Inc. Lovins says that on economic grounds, "His [Brand's] nuclear chapter's facts and logic do not hold up to scrutiny".<ref>Amory Lovins, [http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-enthusiasm-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic/ Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic], Grist, 14 Oct 2009, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>		Brand's views on nuclear power, as detailed in his book, Whole Earth Discipline, have come under criticism from physicist Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge, Inc. Lovins says that on economic grounds, "His [Brand's] nuclear chapter's facts and logic do not hold up to scrutiny".<ref>Amory Lovins, [http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-enthusiasm-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic/ Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic], Grist, 14 Oct 2009, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>
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		+	Lovins writes:
		+	:If nuclear power isn't needed, worsens climate change (vs. more effective solutions) and energy security, and can't compete in the marketplace despite uniquely big subsidies - all evidence-based findings unexamined in Stewart's chapter - then his nuclear imperative evaporates. Of course, a few countries with centrally planned energy systems, mostly with socialized costs, are building reactors: over two-thirds of all nuclear plants under construction are in China, Russia, India, or South Korea. But that's more because their nuclear bureaucracies dominate national energy policy and face little or no competition in technologies, business models, and ideas. Nuclear power requires such a system. The competitors beating nuclear power thrive in democracies and free markets.<ref>Amory Lovins, [http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-enthusiasm-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic/ Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic], Grist, 14 Oct 2009, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>

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 [[Stewart Brand]] is a pioneer of information technology and was once the editor of the counterculture manual The Whole Earth Catalog.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Original-Whole-Catalog-Special-Anniversary/dp/1892907054 Whole Earth Catalog], Amazon.com, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref> According to an article for Southeast Farm Press in the US, he was "one of the poster children for the environmental movement".<ref>Hembree Brandon, [http://southeastfarmpress.com/news_archive/organic-farming-0803/index.html Lobbing brickbats: Baby steps toward acceptance of biotech in organics], Southeast Farm Press, 3 Aug 2009, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref>
-He has become a champion of nuclear power and genetic engineering.<ref>John Tierney, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/earth/27tier.html An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’], New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref> He has argued for the acceptance of genetically engineered crops in organic food production.<ref>Hembree Brandon, [http://southeastfarmpress.com/news_archive/organic-farming-0803/index.html Lobbing brickbats: Baby steps toward acceptance of biotech in organics], Southeast Farm Press, 3 Aug 2009, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref> According to a New York Times article, he now "sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon."<ref>John Tierney, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/earth/27tier.html An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’], New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009</ref>
+==Views==
 Brand is well known for promoting technical solutions to environmental and other problems. "We are as gods", he wrote in the first Whole Earth Catalog, "and might as well get good at it."<ref>Stewart Brand, [http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/1340/article/189/we.are.as.gods We are as Gods], Whole Earth, Winter 1998, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref> Brand has said that 30-40 years ago he was pushing space colonies, and he claims that if he'd known about GMOs then, he'd have been more than in favour: "30 to 40 years ago I think I would have said to all the genetic engineering stuff - hot dog!"<ref>[http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/12/26/book-stewart-brand-whole-earth-nuclear-power/ Book: Stewart Brand’s Strange Trip — Whole Earth to Nuclear Power], Interview with Stewart Brand by Yale Environment 360, Dec 26 2009, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>
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 Brand's wife, [[Ryan Phelan]], is founder and CEO of DNA Direct, a company working in the controversial area of marketing DNA tests to consumers.<ref>Katherine Seligman, [http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-01-08/living/17275577_1_blood-test-genetic-phelan-s-case The Social Entrepreneur: Ryan Phelan's controversial new venture is part of her quest to make life questions -- whether about our DNA or the species' existence -- easier for the rest of us], SFGate.com, 8 Jan 2006, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>
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	Brand has suggested that European opposition to GM foods stems from French protectionism.<ref>David Honigmann, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/652828ec-fbe0-11de-9c29-00144feab49a.html#axzz16PDyazIN Lunch with the FT: Stewart Brand], Financial Times, Jan 8 2010, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>		Brand has suggested that European opposition to GM foods stems from French protectionism.<ref>David Honigmann, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/652828ec-fbe0-11de-9c29-00144feab49a.html#axzz16PDyazIN Lunch with the FT: Stewart Brand], Financial Times, Jan 8 2010, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>
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		+	Brand's wife, [[Ryan Phelan]], is founder and CEO of DNA Direct, a company working in the controversial area of marketing DNA tests to consumers.<ref>Katherine Seligman, [http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-01-08/living/17275577_1_blood-test-genetic-phelan-s-case The Social Entrepreneur: Ryan Phelan's controversial new venture is part of her quest to make life questions -- whether about our DNA or the species' existence -- easier for the rest of us], SFGate.com, 8 Jan 2006, acc 26 Nov 2010</ref>

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