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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 (bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. 

Sources/Links/Notes:

• John Markoff, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554161/whole-earth-by-john-markoff/) , 2022.
• Anna Wiener, "The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s 'Whole Earth Catalog' (newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-complicated-legacy-of-stewart-brands-whole-earth-catalog) ," The New Yorker, November 16, 2018.
• Wolf Tivy and Matt Ellison, "'Life Goes On' With Stewart Brand (palladiummag.com/2022/09/14/life-goes-on-with-stewart-brand/) ," Palladium, September 14, 2022.
• "Ecomodernist Manifesto (ecomodernism.org/manifesto-english) "
• Timothee Parrique, "A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think (resilience.org/stories/2023-02-28/a-response-to-paul-krugman-growth-is-not-as-green-as-you-might-think/) ," Resilience, February 28, 2023.
• Low-Tech Magazine (lowtechmagazine.com/)
• The Long Now Foundation (longnow.org/)
• Revive & Restore (reviverestore.org/)

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