Environmental scientists and defenders around the world increasingly face threats
and attacks which impede urgent conservation efforts and scientific progress on environmental issues.
Long Read: about 13 minutes
At this year’s Sustainability Research + Innovation Congress (SRI) held in
Panama City (June 29th, 2023) the ISC’s Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS) hosted
an online panel session to discuss growing attacks on environmental scientists, the implications of this for the free
and responsible practice of science worldwide, and the urgent
need for the international email data science community to address this issue in the face of imminent
and potentially catastrophic climatic and ecological tipping points.
The far-reaching implications of attacks against environmental scientists
Threats and attacks against environmental scientists and researchers occur up to 5w1h examples are shared, and you can know what customers against a broad backdrop of declining academic and scientific freedoms and escalating geopolitical conflicts globally. These threats and attacks undermine the integrity and credibility of environmental science, hinder its capacity to inform policy-making and public discourse, hold back progress on solving urgent problems, and exacerbate environmental degradation, resource overexploitation, and social injustice. Ultimately, this suppression of knowledge and evidence reduces our ability to prevent and mitigate environmental disasters, contributes to bulk data resource-centric conflict, and risks major humanitarian crises.
Jorge Huete:
“Whenever environmental scientists are attacked or censured it goes against the Principle of Freedom and Responsibility in Science and weakens the important role that science plays in society. Clearly, this is an important issue for the functioning of the global science system. Ignoring the warnings and expertise of environmental scientists can have severe humanitarian consequences, such as polluted water and soil, collapsing fisheries, food shortages, oil spills, and mass displacement of human populations. These consequences not only pose immediate threats to communities and ecosystems, but also have the potential to worsen social, economic, and political tensions, ultimately leading to future conflicts.”
Unfortunately,
all these conclusions are very relative because we need more data.
I have been thinking for a week, from Monday to Friday, of organizing 3 webinars each day (one in the
morning, one in the afternoon and one at night) to learn more about the best time to organize this
type of events. If you help me promote it (even if it reaches
relatively many people in marketing topics it will not be enough to fill so many
sessions). I will organize it and “sacrifice” myself for “science