Environmental Debate Excerpts:
Stewart Brand vs Winona LaDuke
Is Technology Neutral? Stewart Brand vs Winona LaDuke
Posted 25 July 2011, by Earth Island Journal TV, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/user/EarthIslandJournal
Brand explains why he thinks “technology is neutral and the people promoting it are neutral.” Says over-interpreting people’s intentions blinds us to evidence that doesn’t match our agenda. LaDuke counters that what Brand’s promoting is amnesia. She doesn’t agree that everybody comes with “a clear moral history.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cco7NpJakIk
The GMO debate: Stewart Brand vs Winona LaDuke
Posted 25 July 2011, by Earth Island Journal TV, YouTube, youtube.com/user/EarthIslandJournal
Environmental thought leaders Stewart Brand and Winona LaDuke debate GM crop. Brand says “a combination of genetic engineering and organic farming really is the future of food.” LaDuke says it’s far more complex. “The reality is that hunger issues have to do with colonisation, lack of access to land, the theft of seeds… and …consumption issues.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKFiJDG4N1A&feature=related
Peter Coyote responds to Brand and LaDuke
Posted 25 July 2011, by Earth Island Journal TV, YouTube, youtube.com/user/EarthIslandJournal
Peter Coyote challenges Stewart Brand’s hypothesis that “we are like gods”, positing instead that human beings are “idiot savants”
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