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posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045

A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.

Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.

Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.

They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.

The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @04:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @04:58PM (#442099)

    I thought that religious people looked after the environment because God have Man stewardship of the earth and all the living things on it. If God gives you something to look after, you better do your best to look after it!

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by fritsd on Friday December 16 2016, @06:19PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Friday December 16 2016, @06:19PM (#442130) Journal

    That's right: it's expressed in detail here:

    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html [vatican.va]

    Chapter III. THE HUMAN ROOTS OF THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

    III. THE CRISIS AND EFFECTS OF MODERN ANTHROPOCENTRISM

    116. Modernity has been marked by an excessive anthropocentrism which today, under another guise, continues to stand in the way of shared understanding and of any effort to strengthen social bonds. The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society. An inadequate presentation of Christian anthropology gave rise to a wrong understanding of the relationship between human beings and the world. Often, what was handed on was a Promethean vision of mastery over the world, which gave the impression that the protection of nature was something that only the faint-hearted cared about. Instead, our “dominion” over the universe should be understood more properly in the sense of responsible stewardship.[94]

    If you have the time, I greatly recommend Chapter IV. INTEGRAL ECOLOGY which is very clearly written.
    (most of the book is quite mystical and may be difficult to read if you're not brought up as a Catholic)

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @09:57PM (#442236)

    God gave man oil to burn, and when the oil is all burned, Jesus will come back and rapture the people who burned the most oil to heaven while the infidels will burn forever in the lake of fire. The lake runs on nat gas.