Tenure, the Canadian tar sands and ‘Ethical Oil’

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics

Daniel Pauly¹ 

关键词: Oil development;    Climate change;    Muzzling of scientists;    Fisheries act;   

DOI  :  10.3354/esep00155

来源: Inter-Research Science Publisher

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT: Canada, despite its long democratic tradition, has a record of attempts to suppress inconvenient scientific findings. This has intensified since 2006, when the new conservative government of Canada began its systematic and well-documented assault on the functioning, independence and integrity of the environmental science performed in federal governmental laboratories, which is largely attributed to its focus on developing Canada’s tar sands and Arctic offshore oil, while denying the reality of global warming. Academic tenure, still a major feature of Canada’s research universities, appears to be one of the few obstacles to this strategy of silencing environmental scientists concerned about this course of action.

【 授权许可】

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