A dream came true: Half grown Siberian tiger in the snow

Jorginho wrote:

ShatteredSky wrote:

myh wish for ecology.biology is that it returns to the scientific world and gets rid of all the values it constantly introduces, where students are infected with so they can precisely not be what they should be: unbiased gatherers of data providing sopceity witrh facts and if they can't indicate their findings are not significant hence no proof for some development etc.

Regards

regards.

My wish - and I'm sure it is one that most thinking people share - is that the endless prevaricators that use appeals to "science" and to "objectivity" to delay effective action - as they long did with smoking, then second hand smoke, then the ozone hole and lake acidification, now global warming, species extinction finally shut their mouths, open their eyes, and recognize the realities that are happening all around us.

In 1976, I heard Aileen Smith and doctors and scientists familiar with the Minimata atrocity decry the signs of similar mercury poisoning at the Grassy Narrows reserve. Ontario government "Scientists" and "researchers" kept finding ways of raising doubts about the lethal concentrations and hypothesizing Rube Goldberg "natural" processes.  Last year, an ex-employee of the pulp mill upstream testified to being directed to dump and burry dozens of barrels.   Even after that Government "scientists" spun new evasions until independent agencies, hired by the reserve, finally confirmed what the levels are.

"Scientists" and the "need for further research" and appeals to natural processes have managed to delay action for four decades and likely contribute to neural damage of more than a generation.

There will always be some doubts about ultimate causes, about intricate dynamic mechanisms, about the interaction of complex systems and there will always be some who prefer to ponder and debate them.  But there also come a time to act.

erichK
saskatoon, canada
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