{"id":3810,"date":"2010-11-08T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T22:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2010-11-08T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T22:15:15","slug":"stewart-brand-gets-fact-checked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Brand Gets Fact-Checked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/">https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/</a> One of my favorite new blogs (for me) is <a href=\"http:\/\/ecologicalsociology.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecological Sociology<\/a>. Its current <a href=\"http:\/\/ecologicalsociology.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/intellectual-irony.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on Stewart Brand&#8217;s hypocrisy hits all the right notes. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/georgemonbiot\/2010\/nov\/05\/stewart-brand-pesticide\" target=\"_blank\">Monbiot<\/a> is all over this.) Long story short: In Brand&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whole-Earth-Discipline-Ecopragmatist-Manifesto\/dp\/0670021210\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Earth Discipline<\/a>, he evidently writes (I haven&#8217;t seen the passage myself yet):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/bathtub-installation/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/bathtub-installation/</a> As Gary at Ecological Society <a href=\"http:\/\/ecologicalsociology.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/intellectual-irony.html\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/dentures/">Buy Ambien Online Overnight</a> It turns out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/chm.pops.int\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2001 Stockholm Convention<\/a> which regulates DDT use worldwide a) doesn&#8217;t ban DDT and b) explicitly  allows use to control disease vectors (read kill the mosquitoes that  carry malaria). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/georgemonbiot\/2010\/nov\/05\/stewart-brand-pesticide\" target=\"_blank\">Monbriot&#8217;s blog<\/a> traces a hilarious series of ineffective  attempts to contact Brand and get him to address the issue &#8230;. sort of  a text version of Michael Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_&amp;_Me\" target=\"_blank\">Roger and Me<\/a>. Brand even suggests that Monbriot&#8217;s argument isn&#8217;t with Brand but with Gwadz (who Brand quotes)!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/online-school/">https://forgive123.com/online-school/</a> Gary goes on to write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/rentals/"></a> Personally, I want science journalism that holds itself to higher  standards than the ideological hacks that dominate political blogs and  unthinkingly repeat whatever quote they can find that justifies their  position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/contact/">https://forgive123.com/contact/</a> Me too, but since when is Stewart Brand a science journalist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/mahosot/"></a> One of my favorite new blogs (for me) is Ecological Sociology. Its current post on Stewart Brand&#8217;s hypocrisy hits all the right notes. (Monbiot is all over this.) Long story short: In Brand&#8217;s book, Whole Earth Discipline, he evidently writes (I haven&#8217;t seen the passage myself yet): &#8230;In an excess of zeal that [Rachel] Carson&#8230;<span> <a href="https://andiroberts.com/bio/">https://andiroberts.com/bio/</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3810\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2659,3007],"tags":[919,1019,1656],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmentalism","category-stewart-brand","tag-ddt","tag-environmentalism","tag-stewart-brand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}