This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallelÂ… Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not appear to know much either. This book is a guide for everyone who feels understandably perplexed.
This book considers issues as diverse as:
Â?The lure of alternative religions and belief systems.
Â?The use of the rhetoric of economics to justify amoral decision-making.
Â?Green politics and genetically-modifies crops.
Â?New technologyÂ’s power to preserve the status quo, and
Â?The true impetus behind the Human Genome Project.