{"id":386090,"date":"2018-11-22T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/industrial-forest-science-industrys-bitch\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:57:07","slug":"industrial-forest-science-industrys-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/industrial-forest-science-industrys-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Forest Science: Industry\u2019s Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107359\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107359\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/41317679365_163365b848_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/41317679365_163365b848_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/41317679365_163365b848_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Gunvor R\u00f8kke | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as you are a scientist \u2026 you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists \u2026 produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks \u2018how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, develop \u2026 and do to Earth\u2019s ecosystems without making them buckle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Mary O\u2019Brien, 1994. Being a Scientist Means Taking Sides.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/skalski\/classes\/QERM597\/papers_xtra\/OBrien.pdf\">BioScience 43(10): 706-708<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe larger and more immediate are prospects for gain, the greater the political power that is used to facilitate unlimited exploitation; Political leaders \u2026 base their policies upon a misguided view of the dynamics of resource exploitation; Distrust claims of sustainability; Scientists and their judgments are subject to political pressures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Donald Ludwig, et al., 1993. Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/260\/5104\/17\">Science 260: 17\/36<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in the late 1980s, the good people of Minnesota, alarmed by heavy logging, asked that an impact analysis be done. Jaakko Poyry, an international forestry consulting firm, was hired to produce a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), and in 1992,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/conservancy.umn.edu\/handle\/11299\/169578\">the draft<\/a><\/u>\u00a0of\u00a0the million dollar analysis was released for public scrutiny. In essence, it read \u201cThere will be ecological damage, we\u2019re not sure how much, but industry rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At even the lowest level investigated [the level that had caused public concern], there were projected&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/22\/industrial-forest-science-industrys-bitch\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Gunvor R\u00f8kke | CC BY 2.0 \u201cAs soon as you are a scientist \u2026 you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists \u2026 produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks \u2018how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, develop \u2026 and do to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}