tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35477414.post6242176971803837933..comments2023-06-17T02:25:08.805-07:00Comments on the net self.: skepticism.laura.ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13638164730513113228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35477414.post-12651886250986114822008-03-19T07:41:00.000-07:002008-03-19T07:41:00.000-07:00LG -- I can only agree about the need to examine t...LG -- I can only agree about the need to examine the sense of possibility critically. One of the things I'm constantly thinking about, in the background of my project, is how we go about planning how we're going to interact with the rest of nature. It seems clear to me that our sense of possibility has gotten us into a world of environmental trouble for at least two evident reasons: one, we believe we can control things we don't actually understand (i.e., we don't know that there's more to know until the unintended consequence happens), and two, we have way more power -- thanks to our technologies -- than we have caution. <BR/><BR/>Our model of nature needs to include how much we DON'T know, which is otherwise called humility. But that's hardly the way we are used to working in this here Western culture of ours.<BR/><BR/>LPLowryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412226146277773482noreply@blogger.com