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http://kinrowan.net/blog [house of the hanged man] Environmental Heresies Stewart Brand, author, founder of Whole Earth and co-founder of The WELL, and participant in The Long Now Foundation, writes convincingly about some paradigm-shifting ideas in environmentalism. He argues persuasively that population growth as a problem in diminishing, that genetically modified organisms are potential solutions to problems from hunger to invasive species, and that nuclear power will solve our reliance on fossil fuels.

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http://jhunytheboy.blogspot.com [living, breathing, dancing...] Environmentalism and Nuclear are compatible.: Thanks to Boing Boing for bringing to my attention this article: Environmental Heresies. It's interesting, too, to read that Patrick Moore, Greenpeace cofounder, is pro-nuclear because I thought that Greenpeace had a blanket aversion of all things to do with atomic energy, power plants as well as weapons.

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[Akshay.org] Akshay’s Notebook » Blog Archive » Environmental Heresies?: Interesting article in MIT’s Technology review by Stewart Brand talks about how environmentalists need to change their attitudes to four things:

Techreview.comhttp://www.techreview.com [Techreview.com] Welcome to TechnologyReview.com: And back to Brand's essay, is he actually claiming that GMO corn, modified to express the BT (bacillus thuringensis) toxin specifically to kill corn borer worms (caterpillars) will not kill monarch butterfly caterpillars? Isn't that the same BT they use to kill mosquito larvae?

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