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April 20, 2009
Uncle Stew

Green, for small values of green.

Controversial stand: That technology can be green. The book I just finished, “Whole Earth Discipline,” has chapters on why nuclear is green, cities are green, genetic engineering is green. The romantic nature-is-perfect approach is just horse exhaust.
This is an attempt to define, or redefine, green. It's irrelevant whether anything is green or not since it's a vague political concept that means whatever some pol can sell it as. It's a distraction from useful efforts to identify and implement smart systems that achieve real objectives. There's an opportunity for some market droid to find some way to package and sell such intelligent approaches as an antidote to the green bubble and its immanent collapse. Then we can pick it apart too, since marketing is they way of failure - always too late, too little or too much, and too silly.

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