num_pages: 514
description: Whenever the people are well informed Thomas Jefferson famously wrote they can be trusted with their own government. But what happens when they are not? The United States provide a good illustration: Politicians pass resolutions denying global warming's existence that astrology can control the weather and in some states even forbid using the words Climate Change.In every aspect of our society  from transport to technology health care to national defense  we are in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress that has led to a simultaneous explosion of real world catastrophe. And yet many western democracies actively ignore how science might help us to survive our own ingenuity. Shawn Lawrence Ottos provocative book investigates the historical social and emotional reasons for why this is the case and offers a vision and an argument to bring us to our collective senses before its too late.
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title: The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
publisher: Milkweed Editions