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Watch this talk Share“As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down — but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.”
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“If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.”
— Stewart BrandDebate: Does the world need nuclear energy?
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“[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you’d use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.”
— Stewart BrandDebate: Does the world need nuclear energy?
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Watch this talk Share“It would be helpful if humanity got into the habit of thinking of the now not just as next week or next quarter, but the next 10,000 years and the last 10,000 years — basically civilization’s story so far.”
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Watch this talk Share“There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.”
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“National Geographic has the theory that [in] the last century, discovery was basically finding things, and in this century, discovery is basically making things. De-extinction falls in that category.”
— Stewart BrandStewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
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“The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.”
— Stewart BrandStewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
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“Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.”
— Stewart BrandStewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
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