Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumTories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives
I'll x-post this to the Canada group, too. And General Discussion if people think it's worthwhile.
From BoingBoing:
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/04/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html
From the article:
Unsurprisingly, given the Canadian Conservatives' war on the environment, the worst-faring archives were those that related to climate research. The legendary environmental research resources of the St. Andrews Biological Station in St. Andrews, New Brunswick are gone. The Freshwater Institute library in Winnipeg and the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland: gone. Both collections were world-class.
Honestly, this may be some of the worst news I've heard in a long time out of Ottawa. How did they decide that they could do this? How did committee discussion and group action lead to this information being irrevocably lost forever? It's baldly obviously why this is a good idea for the Harper gov't. Without the historical data to put the current environmental conditions in context, it's easy for them to continue to deny global climate change and continue to support the wealthy corporations whose best interests are served by loose and weak environmental regulations.
Time for Harper to leave the house. It would be great to see the Conservatives destroyed as they were in 1993.
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)In my haste, I didn't notice that it had already been posted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112761658
by JakeXT!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)We are hearing from all over of various moves to destroy past knowledge.
Just this week
"unknown assailants" set fire to Tripoli's Saeh Library, destroying two-thirds of some 80,000 books and manuscripts housed there,
http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=158900&heading=Middle%20East
When we invaded Iraq, the museums and libraries were left unguarded, and were ransacked.
We did, however, station our troops at key points for oil and pipeline protection.
Libraries are being closed as part of budget cuts.
Somebody has made this part of a master plan. There is a pattern to this.
pscot
(21,024 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)Saviolo
(3,282 posts)on the BoingBoing story made a good point. It's a little less Hitler and a little more Mao Cultural Revolution. Literally burning the past away. Eliminating the public record of all of this scientific data.