The Last Whole Earth Catalog Access To Tools

Stewart Brand is the one that's been the most public and he has impeccable credentials in the space and he wrote the whole earth catalogs yeah and he's written a whole bunch of really interesting books since and he wrote a recent book that goes through in detail he's like yes obviously the correct environmental thing to do is nuclear power and we should be implementing project independence we should be building a thousand we should specifically we should he didn't say this but this is what I would say we should hire Charles Koch we should hire Koch industries right and they should build us a thousand nuclear power plants right and then we should give them the presidential metal freedom for saving the environment and that would play us independent of our reliance on oil yeah then we're done with oil like we're just think about what happens we're done with oil zero emissions we're done with the Middle East we're done we're done we we're not drilling we're not drilling on American land anymore we're not drilling on foreign land like we have no military entanglements in places where we're drilling we're not you know dispoiling Alaska we're not nothing no offshore rigs so nothing we're done and you basically just you build state-of-the-art plants engineered properly you have them just completely contained when there's nuclear waste you just entomb the waste right and concrete so it just sits there you know forever um it's this very small you know footprint you know kind of thing um and you're just done and so this is like the most to me it's like scientifically technologically this is just like the most obvious thing in the world um it's a massive tell on the part of the people who claim to be pro-environment that they're not in favor of this

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called the Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the Bibles of my generation. It was sort of like Google in paperback form 35 years before Google came along.

It was pretty big. Actually, bookstores complained about it because it's about as big as a laptop now. Basically, folio-sized.

A man called Stuart Brand who taught me how to think honestly. He was the first publisher and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog which I read in high school. And the message of that kind of hippie Bible was you can invent your life to do whatever you want and that you don't need to ask permission.