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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (25129)9/5/2009 1:13:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 36918
 
Vint, engineers are long on science and causal relationships. Before they even get into engineering, they have to perform science at a higher level than do people who go on to do science degrees.

<Engineering is not a discipline usually associated with environmental studies--although civil engineering usually studies how their projects may effect the local environment. >

In fact, civil engineering includes geology, not just "local environment". There is everything from relativity theory to high level maths, chemistry and materials science.

My job in BP included environmental studies. The oil industry is full of chemistry and the biological effects of it - laboratory people for a start are involved with all sorts of chemistry.

Who do you think handles all the poop that comes out of people? It's engineers with their knowledge of environmental issues too. Engineers can easily read up on environmental issues and understand them and come up with good ideas which are actually rational and economic. Hand-waving environmental enthusiasts who say you can't put a price on human life might mean well, but are not much use in actually making things happen in a sensible way. We can put a price on human life and those Denialists do too, though they claim prices can't be assigned. The price they put on life is actually shockingly low. People don't need to actually say a number with a dollar sign. We can judge by their actions what they really think various human lives are worth.

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