After fifty years of research on the distribution of fish resources against the marine environment, I have doubts about the regularity of the global system responsible for the objectivity of resource and environmental linkages. Governments and related international corporations are responsible for the degradation of the environment. The same bodies are also the main sponsors of resource and environmental research. For the benefit of our planet, there should be an independent system for carrying out such research. Is fishing restriction the result of overfishing or the removal of an inconvenient witness to destroying the environment by the international community?
You are describing "green-washing". Governments and international corporations exploit the environment and natural resources to make money, then offer money for research, conservation or restoration to to appear benevolent and to appease the public angry at the destruction of their environment. Basically the government takes a large amount of resource with one hand while handing out a small amount of compensation with the other. I have heard people in government and industry refer to providing research and conservation funds as "doing their penance".
I totally agree that research should ideally be completely independent of government and industry. Climate change denial is a perfect example of why this should be. Groups like the Heartland Institute are funded by the fossil fuel industry, so it is no surprise that the scientists on their payroll deny the existence of GHG-based anthropogenic warming. Likewise, many environmental impact assessments involving fisheries and fish habitat are commissioned by the energy or mining sectors, and assessment results that are unfavourable to the industry are either covered up or ignored.
Dr Orlowski,
Environmental pollution research to facilitate further deterioration of environment.
In fisheries research it is very hard to deal both government and fisheries population. government try to bribe the fishermen to get vote for election, bribes can be money, fishing gears or fishing crafts; Mean while asking research institutions to do the research to control over fishing.
Furthermore researchers face big problem when research are funded by responsible organizations. They (researches) face difficulties when report the final decision. There are ethics. but everyone is not honest as they should be.
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