The filters are useful not just in dealing with the life and death issues of world population, but in everyday personal and even business problem solving.

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 ...

The ecologist Garrett Hardin explores the three filters (Literacy, Numeracy, and Ecolacy) that help us interpret reality, avoid folly, and exploit ...

He shows how the filters of literacy, understanding what words really mean; numeracy, being able to quantify and interpret information; and ecolacy, assessment ...

Dec 30, 2018 · Garret starts by explaining three filters, the literate, the numerate, and the ecolate, that can be used to look at reality. And he explains ...

Garrett Hardin (1915-2003) was a renowned ecologist and philosopher who warned societies about both overpopulation and excessive consumption. His works include ...

"For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems...Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading.

Garrett Hardin (1915-2003) was a renowned ecologist and philosopher who warned societies about both overpopulation and excessive consumption. His works include ...

Professor Hardin iden- tifies three major filters against folly that we citizens can use against the blindness, short-sightedness, and sheer idiocy that so ...

He shows how the filters of literacy, understanding what words really mean; numeracy, being able to quantify and interpret information; and ecolacy, assessment ...