The Knowledge That Sustains Human Life in Oxfordshire

The knowledge that currently sustains human life in oxfordshire does so only in the first sense. It does not make us enact the same traditional way of life in every generation. In fact, it prevents us from doing so. The population grows because children who would have died survive. Meanwhile, fewer of them are needed to work in the fields. And so there is no way to continue as before. You have to live the solution and to set about solving new problems that this creates. We can't just create knowledge without exploiting the world around us.