183: From Research to Responsibility
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 05:34
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Research and scientific inquiry must increase in order for us to best understand the ocean and address its critical problems, and there is a responsibility of researchers and policy organizations to make public recommendations beyond the predictable and limited audience within the scientific community. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that scientists and organizations should advocate through responsible research and discovery in the public forum and will ask, "How long can we reject responsibility for our indifference to the damage to human life and community?"
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Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
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Piece Description
Research and scientific inquiry must increase in order for us to best understand the ocean and address its critical problems, and there is a responsibility of researchers and policy organizations to make public recommendations beyond the predictable and limited audience within the scientific community. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that scientists and organizations should advocate through responsible research and discovery in the public forum and will ask, "How long can we reject responsibility for our indifference to the damage to human life and community?"
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Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
Broadcast History
WERU 89.9 FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Maine Boats Homes & Harbors; 3CR Melbourne: Out of the Blue; thew2o.net/world-ocean-radio; Waiheke Radio, 107.4 FM, Waiheke Island, NZ; Stitcher.com
Transcript
If we accept the notion that we must understand the ocean better before we can truly address its critical problems, then research and scientific inquiry must increase with urgency commensurate with the crisis. And, indeed, research has done just that, as best it can within a political and financial context sadly antithetical to this progress.
Funding for pure science has been diminished, both by the national and global financial circumstances we face, but also by the calculated efforts of those who ideologically oppose or fear the knowledge acquired. We have all heard of the North Carolina legislature in the US attempting to outlaw climate change by statute. As absurd is a totality by definition, there may be no additional language that can characterize the magnitude of this collective, empty expression of denial. As the North Carolina economy depends in great part on new research be...
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Additional Credits
Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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