Nature's Due: Healing Our Fragmented Culture, with Brian Goodwin

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Modern scientific culture is in desperate need of change. “Science” today implies groups of specialists working in disparate disciplines while searching for answers to narrowly defined questions that have little or nothing to do with the real, living world. Brian Goodwin argues that nature is complex and has interrelated networks of relationships. He proposes that we must adopt a new science, a new art, a new design, a new economics, and new patterns of responsibility. We must be willing to give nature its due. In other words, we must recognize what we actually owe to the natural world and resist selfish exploitation.

Professor Brian Goodwin was born in Montreal and studied biology at McGill University, before studying mathematics at the University of Oxford and finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh with C.H. Waddington. His university appointments were at Sussex and the Open University, and he was on the Science Board of the prestigious Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. Brian now teaches Holistic Science at Schumacher College in Devon, UK. 

Gaia Evening held at Burgh House, Hampstead, Thursday 1st March, 2007.

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