re: #5 Charles Johnson

The Biosphere 2 was “known as an incubator for radical environmental ideas?” This was news to me.

Biosphere 2. Financed by Ed Bass from 1985 to 2007.

Edward Perry “Ed” Bass (born September 10, 1945)[4] is a businessman, financier, philanthropist, and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He financed the Biosphere 2 project, an artificial closed ecological system, which was built between 1987 and 1991. He is the chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth,[5] and president of the board of directors of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a philanthropic organization.[6] He was listed as #239 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2012, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion…