"For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems... Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading." -- Michael Crichton The ecological problems facing our world present a forum for experts to offer slogans and solutions on all sides of the issue, but leave most of us confused and unsure of the future. In this bracing book, Garrett Hardin offers a plan for clear thinking about these dangers. He shows how the filters of literacy, understanding what words really mean; numeracy, ...
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"For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems... Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading." -- Michael Crichton The ecological problems facing our world present a forum for experts to offer slogans and solutions on all sides of the issue, but leave most of us confused and unsure of the future. In this bracing book, Garrett Hardin offers a plan for clear thinking about these dangers. He shows how the filters of literacy, understanding what words really mean; numeracy, being able to quantify and interpret information; and ecolacy, assessment of complex interactions over time, can allow anyone to make sensible judgments about ecological issues--even in the face of a barrage of confusing expertise. " Filters Against Folly offers an antidote to some of the more perverse and dangerous irrationalities of our time: wishful self-delusion, educated incapacity, and foolhardy optimism...If ever this book were needed, it is needed today." -- Lynton K. Caldwell, School of Public Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
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Literate: can read. Numerate: can count, even zeros. Ecolate: can tell what will happen next based on scientific, repeatable data. Ecolate: different from prophetic where the supernatural is the basis, is the power of ecology as everything is tied together. The book is comforting as it is now decades later and indicates early analysts were right then and just as right today with more data. The right wing hated Hardin and so did the left wing as Hardin teaches how to analyze using default thinking. This method takes the means as the end as one only has means; the system is designed to produce the results that it gets. Hardin does not have any flash or style in a YouTube video. The printed word reveals his genius. You may read the rest of the Hardin books if you make this your first Hardin book.
