Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

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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 perplexed and unsure of the future. On this bracing book, Garrett Hardin offers a plan for clear eager about these dangers. He shows how the filters of literacy, understanding what words in reality mean; numeracy, having the ability to quantify and interpret information; and ecolacy, assessment of complex interactions over the years, can allow somebody to make sensible judgments about ecological issues–even in the face of a barrage of confusing expertise.

Filters Against Folly offers an antidote to one of the vital more perverse and dangerous irrationalities of our time: wishful self-delusion, educated incapacity, and foolhardy optimism…If ever this book were needed, it’s needed as of late.” — Lynton K. Caldwell, School of Public Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

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