Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental ‘heresies’

admin November 4th, 2009

25 Responses to “Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental ‘heresies’”

  1. darlingelfon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Depraved man.

  2. complexnothingson 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    It’s all horseshit. People are so fucking confused anymore it’s mind-boggling.

    Yes, let’s encourage slums to get bigger, humanity’s foot print to increase by billions.. and when all of their waste starts to rape our planet.. we’ll just play gods and geoengineer.

    Yeah, we’ll make mistakes.. but we’ll geofix that too!

    …SIGH

    Liberals think that’s good. They don’t realize that the elite just want more workers. The workers lives, on the other hand.. will be shit.

    Fucking ignoble dipshits.

  3. holymolybobon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    do some more homework on this guy. he does more good than most people on this earth.

  4. mrlowdangleon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    dick cheney’s ‘green’ friend?+

  5. tinosniton 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Brilliant talk.

  6. tinosniton 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    This is an ad hominem attack. It is stupid. We can just as easily throw it back at greenies.

  7. maxshojiowenohsawaon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Adamredwine’s view on viable energy sources is extremely biased because he is a nuclear power professional. His livelihood depends on nuclear power surviving as a viable energy source. While I would hate to see his livelihood damaged, I would rather the world make better decisions and improve the livelihood of all inhabitants and not just the ones that have great vested interests in themselves.

  8. maxshojiowenohsawaon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    In the world of motor vehicles, the weight-to-power ratio becomes significantly important. Electrical energy can be stored in the way of fuel cell technology which is an energy dense fuel source, which is ideal of vehicular transport.

  9. maxshojiowenohsawaon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    A bountiful amount of CSP can be produced both locally and transnationally, distributed by an updated smart electrical grid (ours is almost 100 years old) which can store energy during off peak hours and release it when we need it most. The energy can be stored in electrical, mechanical or chemical capacitors quite efficiently.

  10. maxshojiowenohsawaon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Solar energy is our very own nuclear fusion energy, and it has supported all life on earth for billions of years. As long as the sun burns and we have access to it, solar energy is boundless (and if the sun stops burning and/or we lose access to it, well then we’ll talk about nuclear fission plants :) .

  11. maxshojiowenohsawaon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Collected Solar Power (CSP) is cheap to make (does not rely on expensive Photovoltaic technology but rather parabolic mirrors and Stirling engines that can produce both electricity and hot water at the same time), so cheap that it is competitive with fossil fuel energy in terms of its cost-to-energy-output ratio with one enormous difference. IT IS SUSTAINABLE.

  12. maxshojiowenohsawaon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Nuclear power is cheap, but nuclear power plants cost too much (manpower, raw materials, hazards to populations, etc.) to be feasible, not to mention the carbon footprint it leaves in its creation. Furthermore, the amount of nuclear fuel remaining on earth, whether it is 20 years or 600 years worth, is ultimately limited and the energy paradigm would require a complete overhaul at some point in the future.

  13. StunnedByStupidityon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    No the biggest problem is southern white male racists supporting right wing psychopaths, lucky that doesn’t apply to you eh?…

  14. contemporarybeatnikon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    wow, you are fucking stupid. did you not listen to the talk? immigrant workers have nothing to do with it. child reproduction eventually decreases once within cities. besides, there is the benefit of cheap labor that in turn keeps costs down.

    why don’t you read something that isn’t far right propaganda?

  15. rocketsredglare101on 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    If you want to go green you should work to reduce immigration!

    Changing lightbulbs and having few or no kids is pointless when you let the government bring in millions of immigrants that will then have a dozen kids while you pay taxes to enable them to do so.
    Google numbersusa to learn real facts on immigration.

    or read
    By Edwin S. Rubenstein

    Legal Immigration—The Bigger Obamacare Problem

  16. KensaiAkahigeon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    He has it mostly wrong.

  17. Xjotoxti20on 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    This speech is amazing and truly opens a new window to the world! Thank you!

  18. MattandtheGmeisteron 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Yeah , but you cant generate solar power at night ! We need to focus on battery technologies or get Solar Satellites up.

  19. Jai666666666on 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Go see the farmer suicides in India over GMO seeds.They are owned by one company and you will soon be owned by that same company, you will pay a tax to eat their food and they will own all GMO foods.This man has some vested interest in the subject, there is over 600, 000 websites that plead for the consumer to get informed about this monstrous practice and most of those sites made from Professors that have left their countries on vessels with their families to get away from these Gods

  20. Jai666666666on 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Soilent Green, lets have mandatory Euthanasia and feed the starving people the old, and polluting humans, that are the smartest mammals on the planet, eat smart, eat green, get rid of the polluters one plate full at a time. This Message Was Brought To You By Your Masters Of the Carnegie and Rockefeller Corporation: Obey and Serve Your Masters.

  21. adamredwineon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Of course we will run out eventually, but you have no sense of the scales involved. There is more energy in the uranium in coal than there is in the coal in coal. One fuel assembly (about 2 feet square and 15 feet tall) has more energy than a tanker of oil. Uranium is found in very large quantities all over the world and, as I said, there are other techniques such as thorium burning that have equal potential.

  22. SmileyWhiplashon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    That’s what they said about oil. We’ll run out of it just like anything else, and we still have to do something with the waste.

  23. semigotbannedon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    givebirthathome, thanks for sharing this information with us.
    What was obvious to me based on the theoretical knowledge (that the GMO’s could be very dangerous, and the approval process in basically a joke – hopelessly weakened by lobbyists), you could back up by this rock solid piece of evidence.
    Again, thanks.

  24. adamredwineon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Nope, you need to do some more research, there’s plenty of uranium.

  25. adamredwineon 04 Nov 2009 at 12:03 pm

    See comments below, but uranium supplies are projected to last for several centuries based just on current, inefficient technologies.

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