The Virtues of Ignorance (Hardback)
Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge
Series: Culture of the Land
Pages: 368
Illustrations: 9 line drawings
ISBN: 9780813124773
Published: 1st May 2008
Casemate UK Academic
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Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, along with the notion that environmental problems can be solved with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors offer profound arguments for the advantages of an ignorance-based worldview. Examining the relationship between the land and the future generations who will depend on it, they propose that, while we cannot improve upon nature, by putting this new perspective to work in our professional and personal lives we can live sustainably on Earth.