Stewart Brand

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734 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Apr

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The Ezra Klein Show · Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

It was about 100 micrograms.

I went up on the roof of a $20-a-month place that I lived in North Beach.

And...

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah, okay, that's already hard to believe, but it was true.

Well, it turns out I didn't really get NASA to do that.

We'd been in space for 10 years at that point, we and the Soviet Union, and the cameras had always been looking outward or at pieces of the Earth, but they could have been looking back to see the Earth as a whole, and I was pretty sure that would change everything.

I wound up starting a campaign.

There was a button that said, why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?

And I know I got looked at by a lot of people in Congress and NASA and so on, but I got to know some of the astronauts like Rusty Schweikert when they took photographs.

It came just a year or two later after my campaign.

But it led to understanding the picture, I think, for a lot of people.

It's for the key things going.

I'm a biologist by training.

And so you find that everything alive spends a lot of its time basically maintaining being alive, even the extent of reaching outside itself.

So you're not just eating.

If you're a beaver, you're busy cutting down trees to maintain your dam, which is what protects your lodge.

Most plants spend a lot of time basically helping the soil around them do things that work well for the plant.

And the soil itself is alive.

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