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David Brower, a mountain-climbing activist who helped shape the environmental movement for much of the 20th century, died of cancer at his Berkeley, Calif. home. He was 88.Brower, who died Sunday, served as
stanley puodelis the Sierra Club s first executive director from 1952 through 1969, building it into one of the nation s most powerful environmental groups
stanley kubek .He also helped found Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters. The world has lost a pioneer of modern environmentalism, said Sierra Club president Robert Cox. Like the California redwoods he cherished, David towered above the environmental movement and inspired us to protect our planet. An avid mountain climber and skier, Brower served in the Army s 10th Mountain Division during World War II and had an outdoor adventure career that took him around the globe. Brower joined the Sierra Club in 1933 and helped turn it from a small hiking group into an environmental organization with considerable influence in Washington and state capitals around the country. The Sierra Club has more than 600,000 members nationwide.Brower led Sierra Club efforts to pass the Wilderness Act, block construction of two hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon, and create Kings Canyon, North Cascades and Redwoods National Parks and Point Reyes and Cape Cod National Seashores.He persuaded skeptical board members to go ahead with expensive but successful coffee-table books of Ansel Adams nature photographs.But he was forced ou
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As we head
stanley cup deeper into the 21st century, we ;re starting to catch a glimpse of the fantastic technological possibilities that await. But we ;re also starting to get a grim sense of the potential horrors. Here are 10 frightening technologies that should never, ever, come into existence. Illustration by Jim Cooke As I was putting this list together, it became obvious to me that many of the technologies described below could be put to tremendously good use. It was important, therefore, for me to make the distinction between a technology per se and how it might be put to ill use. Take nanotechnology, for example. Once developed, it could be used to end scarcity, clean-up the environment, and rework human biology. But it could also be used to destroy the planet in fairly short order. So, when it comes time to develop these futuristic technologies, we ;ll have to do it safely and responsibly. But just as importantly, we ;ll also have to recognize when a particular line of technological inquiry is simply not worth the benefits. Artificial superintelligence may be a potent example. That said, some technologies are objectively evil. Here what Patrick Lin, the directo
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stanley quencher nic State University, told io9 about this: The idea that technology is neutral or amoral is a myth that needs to be dispelled. The designer can imbue ethics into the creation, even if the artifact has no moral agency itself. Thi
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