Learn from Tribal Knowledge to Protect Environment

Learn from Tribal Knowledge to Protect Environment
(Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review via AP)

There is perhaps no more overused word in environmental policy than “science.” Politicians hope allusions to the scientific process will hide the lack of arguments for their policy proposals.

Government-run policies purportedly based on “science,” however, are often static and based on the false assumption that scientists have enough information to accurately plan decades into the future.

The idealized version of environmental policy starts with an understanding of scientific knowledge and builds a public policy plan based on that knowledge. This is the “idealized” version because while many policies claim to follow that path, most are influenced heavily by ideology, politics, and other non-science factors.

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