The virtues of ignorance

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Bill Vitek, Wes Jackson, and a diverse group of thinkers ... offer profound arguments for the advantages of an ignorance-based worldview. Their essays explore this philosophy form numerous perspectives, including its origins, its essence, and how its implementation can preserve vital natural resources for posterity. All conclude that we must simply accept the proposition that our ignorance far exceeds our knowledge and always will.

subjects: Philosophy and science,  Sustainable agriculture,  Ignorance (Theory of knowledge),  Sustainable development,  Philosophy,  Nature and civilization,  Conservation of natural resources,  Agriculture,  Ignorance (canon law)