Want to stretch your mental horizons? The Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, and one of the leading minds of our generation, Stewart Brand, takes a controversial stand on nuclear power, biogenetics, and more. For dessert, click on the Forum link and see some very telling responses.

Link: Environmental Heresies by Stewart Brand, May 2005 Technology Review

Within the environmental movement, scientists are the radical minority leading the way. They are already transforming the perspective on urbanization and population growth. But their radicalism and leadership will have to increase if humanity is to harness green biotech and step up to its responsibilities for the global climate. The romantics are right, after all: we are indivisible from the earth’s natural systems.