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The Science March on Washington DC

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 21 2017, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-ignoring-ignorance dept.

From the I've-heard-enough-and-won't-take-it-anymore department, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39024648

The BBC reports that former Congressman Rush Holt, now part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is the spokesman for a movement "standing up for science".

His remarks reflect growing concern among researchers that science is disregarded by President Trump.

Scientists across the US plan to march in DC on 22 April.

[...] "To see young scientists, older scientists, the general public speaking up for the idea of science. We are going to work with our members and affiliated organisations to see that this march for science is a success."

Mr Holt made his comments at the AAAS annual meting in Boston as President Trump appointed a fierce critic of the Environmental Protection Agency as its head. Scott Pruitt has spent years fighting the role and reach of the EPA.

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  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:47PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:47PM (#469685) Journal

    That, and the same reasons why people like me cannot afford to own homes in towns we grew up in. The EPA and local variant of it have so many restrictions on what land can even be used that it shrinks the supply of it, raising prices. Yet they are powerless to stop the springtime chainsaw brigades from mowing down the shaded part of the nice walkable streets. All for what? So a few frogs can live in the already-polluted waterways that are overloaded because there's no trees left to soak up the water?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:54PM (#469692)

    Wow now that is a new one. The EPA isn't the real problem behind your inability to buy a house, it is more about the state of wealth distribution. Maybe it should be illegal for any one entity to own thousands of homes in order to turn people into serfs? As for the environment, maybe it contributes a bit to lack of cheaper housing, but would you really trade the future of a sustainable ecosystem for a tiny drop in housing prices?

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:07PM (#469766)

    Calm down, take a deep breath. Wasn't that nice that you could do that without coughing?