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planet to fit our infinite wants.
A third myth is that knowledge is increasing and by implication human goodness. There is an
information explosion going on, by which I mean a rapid increase of data, words, and paper. But this
explosion should not be taken for an increase in knowledge and wisdom, which cannot so easily by
measured. What can be said truthfully is that some knowledge is increasing while other kinds of
knowledge are being lost. David Ehrenfeld has pointed out that biology departments no longer hire
faculty in such areas as systematics, taxonomy, or ornithology. In other words, important knowledge is
being lost because of the recent overemphasis on molecular biology and genetic engineering, which
are more lucrative, but not more important, areas of inquiry. We still lack the the science of land
health that Aldo Leopold called for half a century ago.
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