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Fluffeh writes:
"For a few years the National Research Council, National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been working to put together a set of standards for teaching science in public education schools. So far, nine states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards. Wyoming doesn't appear to have issues with evolution. Instead, climate science appears to be the problem. That's not because any of the legislators have actually studied the science involved and found it lacking. The issue appears to be solely with the implications of the science.
State Representative Matt Teeters had this to say '[The standards] handle global warming as settled science. There's all kind of social implications involved in that that I don't think would be good for Wyoming.' Specifically, Teeters seems to think that having citizens of the state accept climate science would 'wreck Wyoming's economy,' which relies heavily on fossil fuel production."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:05AM
Tourism has a basic problem as your economic base:
It depends on other people having disposable income, that they are willing to spend on your tourist attractions.
When others' economies dip, the tourism economy dies. And the only jobs it provides are in the service industries.
Tourism is fine as a secondary industry, but relying on it is folly.
(I speak as a resident of Montana, having watched swaths of this state's economy go to hell when the gas crunch killed "See the USA in your Chevrolet" as everyone's summer vacation.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.