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science is the future...
Jul. 8th, 2012 10:25 pmScience has given us so many things we use today. Research has helped solve so many of our issues today. In 2010, one of the biggest changes my dad saw in the US since his last visit here 30 years ago is the slow decline in research in the US. He would remember the wealth of ideas that would flow. The creativity that was nurtured in this country. The excitement of experimenting, the freedom to try things out. Now you are left with labs in the private sector. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it narrows down the scope so much.
Congress has slowly been cutting funding of research organizations. They see it as a waste. The latest target, well, it's been a target for some years/decades - the East West Center in Hawai'i. And yet science is encouraged by so many entities as a positive thing. We have several friends who have graduated with their PhD's stuck without a job. They feel let down. They were promised such glory of great work.
It';s sad to read such articles in the paper - U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren't there. There is so much more to find out about the world. The biggest area being finding solutions to the energy crisis.
I probably am biased. I grew up with scientists all around me and my background is environmental studies. But it feels like it's such common sense - something that Congress keeps declaring they are trying to bring to the table. Fine if you don't believe in climate change, whatever. But you are the one who preaches "personal responsibility". Well, take it up. Stop cutting funding at least!
Congress has slowly been cutting funding of research organizations. They see it as a waste. The latest target, well, it's been a target for some years/decades - the East West Center in Hawai'i. And yet science is encouraged by so many entities as a positive thing. We have several friends who have graduated with their PhD's stuck without a job. They feel let down. They were promised such glory of great work.
It';s sad to read such articles in the paper - U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren't there. There is so much more to find out about the world. The biggest area being finding solutions to the energy crisis.
I probably am biased. I grew up with scientists all around me and my background is environmental studies. But it feels like it's such common sense - something that Congress keeps declaring they are trying to bring to the table. Fine if you don't believe in climate change, whatever. But you are the one who preaches "personal responsibility". Well, take it up. Stop cutting funding at least!
