“Thank goodness the world is chock-full of nuclear weapons” (Image: c.Zeitgeist/Everett/Rex Features)
Environmentalist, thinker, mover, shaker. If it was “happening” in the sixties and seventies, Stewart Brand was there. Now he tells Liz Else why green ideology is flawed and nuclear power and slums are good
IT IS a civilised plan: an afternoon with futurist, visionary thinker and all-round hippy icon Stewart Brand. This is a rare chance to meet the man who helped forge the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and infuse it with environmentalism.
He was immortalised in the Tom Wolfe 1968 cult classic The Electric Kool-Aid…
