Just how difficult is it to be objective and effective in our work

My aim here is to show you just how challenging it is to understand ( say ecology , physics , chemistry ) and then work with nature.( engineering , agriculture etc)

 I am not saying I am an expert in all these areas , but i am deeply aware that while I had a  great career in environmental risk assessment and environmental engineering,  that opportunity no longer exists and all Australians need to know why ------ and do something to change things .

Unless the city stops telling custodians how to manage the earth , we will have no effective handles for people who work with nature to keep doing so . The battle to really listen  is not new

This wrong approach enslaves  precious people in the wars zones of the world.
A new view of how objectivity respect and democracy can work is needed  

The challenges for us ALL to objective about the earth and our neighbours needs in relation to our own have always stretched us and our forefathers . Being more  objective  ( the aim here ) will mean  we can be much more effective than they were;
A genuine hope and place of consensus to share with our children .

 

I am good at a couple of things,  I am going to just choose two

A  Easy engineering - Building with concrete and steel ( Most Engineers and builders are much better at this than I , so if you want to correct me here,  please do . the world only works when we get it right and it works efficiently for all - is my point valid ?


Think about  the relationship between steel and concrete. Mixtures have predicable sizes and relationships the world over ( steel at 3-5 mm thick 150mm squares and concrete ratio 5:3;1 set % for depth of placement etc etc

Ok but you still need someone to check  that the right steel and concrete is in the right place?




B    Ecosystems engineeering   
The quest for an objective view that we can work with

Ecosystems , by contrast , are sensitive to change and so vary block to block on the earth -- with any damage and failure ALSO dependent on the exact nature of the violence man imposes on the parties (eg time and times you disturb the soil; )
To make the engineering part  even more interesting, there is always a bit of "rubber" ( called resilience ) in there as well.

Whose checking who when it comes to all the wild accusations about whats not working in our engagements with the environment . Whose calming our overly cynical misanthopic guilt prone crowd  with the confidence of , not just facts, but with the confidence of experience with the facts ?

Who never gets beyond fear mongering .projection and muddying the waters 



OK  ---you accept that too many wannabes wanna be too smart with the environment

What are YOU going to do about it ?
Your options  

1. Sit in basic competency training class for a while.and learn whats deeply wrong with our education training and review system . the dumbing down of Australia predicted by the best scientists http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com   What Aussie university is running classes on Ellul and Whitehead?  


2. Stop pontificating on complex subjects you  haven't properly studied

3. Recognize that polys have noone they can trust because their parties  have ALL been funding their own half baked "itching ears " versions of the bandaid brigade for decades http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com Take the huge mess of the Murray Darling - a plan that simply doesn't work .
Tries to please everyone , understands and pleases noone .
Which individual  in the photo or is the painting and framing wrong? 


4. Save time and trust some of us who study the environment and environmental engineering properly