Filters against Folly by Garrett Hardin

Filters against Folly by Garrett Hardin

"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

Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Garrett Hardin He is the author of the influential article The Tragedy of the Commons, which has been reprinted in over 100 anthologies, as well as the book Living Within Limitations (Oxford), which received the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 1993 Prize in Science. He currently resides in Santa Barbara.

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ISBN 13	9780140077292
ISBN 10	0140077294
Title	Filters against Folly
Author	Garrett Hardin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1986-06-03
Number of pages	256
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