Is Environmental Science for Woke Sissies?
The point made at left is a good one, but unfortunately it doesn’t work like this.
Many Americans see things like medicine, civil engineering, and aeronautics as real, but environmental science (the work of a combination of physicists, chemists, biologists/ecologists) as “junk,” the work of America-haters and anti-capitalists.
In the United States alone, approximately 84,600 environmental scientists and specialists were employed as of 2024. A bit fewer than half of these work for government entities, the remainder for consulting companies and private industry. In terms of job growth, the U.S. is projected to see an average of 8,500 new job openings for environmental scientists each year from 2024 to 2034.
That seems like a lot of Marxist sissies to me.
If you’re wondering how strong the grasp of Big Oil and related industries’ propaganda is on the American mind, you’ve just answered your own question.
The piece at left is interesting, but I doubt there’s any real truth to it, even though every decent person in America wishes this were so.
Doubt is what characterizes the scientific method. Scientists don’t want to believe they are right; they want to subject what they believe to rigorous testing in an attempt to disprove the thinking of the day, hoping for a better explanation of the world around them.
Today’s political rhetoric is a reflection of the pathetic state of our educational system.
Over the years, I’ve heard scientists lament that very few Americans have any real interest or ability in the subject. “Go into a high school classroom,” a friend who works with electric motors once told me, “And ask a bunch of graduating seniors to says ‘yes!’ if they can name a popular singer or a top football player. The response is deafening. Now ask that class if they can name a living scientist. Crickets.”
Good point made at left.
The No Kings rally organizers said they wanted protest signs to be “non-hostile.”
A lady asked me why I’m part of the No Kings rally in Hopkinsville (Kentucky).
If I gave you a choice between a room in the “luxury hotel” pictured at left and a room in the place shown below in Oslo, which one would you pick?
Another note to those who may not be intimately familiar with some of America’s less populous states — this one from Idaho’s capital, Boise.
