Stewart Brand is an idiot. Frankly anyone who would follow someone on a guessing platform for enviromental issues is nieve and have no idea on how to think for themselves.  It is one thing to gather data from there actual sources. What people dont realize is as the years progress we have actually gotten better with our enviroment.  All the studies that are pulled are fabrication.  The data provided by actual scientific resource centers show that as far as pollution, global warming, oxigen, forrest loss, and ozone depletion are all doing better than they were twenty years ago.  Infact are world is getting better with time not worse. I am telling all of you dont go by what i say or what anyone else has to say.  Find out for yourself quit being drones.  The information is everywhere.  Its just that people want to make money on those scary subjects.  But did you know that on average the donations that are given only 5% of the actual money may go toward the enviroment or studies for the enviroment.  That means the other 95% of what you pay is basically putting food on the table for people that clearly dont do anything but whine and moan about stuff that just is not true.  If your going to give your money away like that then give it to the homeless guy on the side of the street or donate it to a disease center, child welfare or something along those lines.  Not to a bunch of liars and theives.  People in general are followers and how you can find this out is by going to a ralley pick a normal every day item that you would use find out the scientific name for it and kinda of describe the item in a bad way but in ways it is used, put a petition letter out for it and see how any people would sign.  Most will sign just to sign.  my friend had gotten over 1200 signatures from people at these enviroment rallies to sign a petition to band cotton and anything that was made from cotton.  I mean that is how bad we are as people. There is nothing scary about our enviroment or what we have been doing everything has been getting better not worse.  But if you really want to line someone elses pocket book then let me give you my po box so i can get rich off of you being followers.