How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex.

Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation. Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language. For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. Sources/Links/Notes: John Markoff, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand , 2022. Anna Wiener, " The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s 'Whole Earth Catalog' ," The New Yorker , November 16, 2018. Wolf Tivy and Matt Ellison, " 'Life Goes On' With Stewart Brand ," Palladium , September 14, 2022. " Ecomodernist Manifesto " Timothee Parrique, " A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think ," Resilience , February 28, 2023. Low-Tech Magazine The Long Now Foundation Revive & Restore Support the show