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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> However, I didn't find any "clever arguments." I found a rambling that
> grazes the top of points but has no details that could really be  
> called
> arguments for his latest ramblings.  Actually, it sounds more like a
> desperate attempt at an attention grab.  The old stand-by of "I'll say
> something terribly outrageous and people will pay attention to me  
> again."

Your perspective harmonizes with another friend, who wrote this:

Actually SB has always been a hypertechophile at many levels relative  
to what he promoted through WEC and CEQ, where at one point he  
promoted the idea of mega space stations relaying vast quantities of  
too cheap to meter energy back to the gluttonous human population. He  
also liked to promote humans as "gods" on the back covers, urging us  
to think of ourselves that way and "get on with it."  Being an  
environmental contrarian could cynically be seen as a sure-fire way  
to revive a flagging career, just as it was/is for Rex somebody, one  
of the founders of Greenpeace, who has been going around for years  
getting big press & big lecture fees, talking to big industry and big  
forest products companies urging mega-clearcutting and all  manner of  
ecological depredations in the name of reformed environmentalism,  
which to big industry is like being shriven of all sin, or likens to  
the impact of previous libertines, dopers, etc. reborn to Xianity and  
then going out on the lecture/conversion circuit, the worse the  
previous heinousness the better the proselytization; or another  
syndrome is well-known, whereby the young radical of one persuasion  
gets old and flops over to the other antipode.  I just think SB has  
gotten old, lost his mind, continues to think we should play god,  
misses the limelight and the lecture circuit, and now wants Daddy  
(the formerly scorned Big. Corp. System) to approve of him and give  
him money.