Science for the Anthropocene - Learning to Fly
New knowledge & technology is needed to tackle urgent planetary problems of the ‘Anthropocene’. But the types of knowledge and ways we do research also need to change if science is to be part of the solution, not part of the problem - change that must be both profound and fast.
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Episode 32 - Courage, not heroism, with Alessandra Marazzi (opens the original)
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If science for the Anthropocene is fundamentally about prioritizing cultivation of wisdom, not just knowledge and/or technical mastery, then it is a matter of research and education concerned with the whole person, both individually and in our relations with others. In other words, it is about disciplines not just of the head but also of the heart. And surely no discipline of the heart is more important than courage, even as we tend not to think that much about either the role(s) of courage in s
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