Freudenfested:To be overrun or overwhelmed

with thoughts and feelings, positive and otherwise, about Bill

Punked byFreudling/Gramburg

• Nothing Recedes Like Success?• Addictive Economies• Risk and Recreancy• Digging Deeper: Mining-Dependent

Communities in Historical Perspective• The Society-Nature Divide: Learning to Think

about a Mountain.• Crude, Coppertone®, and the Coast• Navel Warfare?• Weapons of Mass Distraction• Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods

(SCAMs)

A meta-Bill?

• Bill’s unassailable reasoning prevents stupidity

• Bill’s acronyms reveal fundamental stuff• Freudenburg’s art resembles true science Title of non-paper:W.R. Freudenburg’s BURPS, BARFS, & FARTS

Political Science, Intricacies of Activism among Coastal Restoration

Scientists

Lee ClarkeRutgers University

With thanks to Kai Erikson, Harvey Molotch, Shirley Laska, Gates Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Andrew Stroffolino, Allison McKim

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Past and Projected Wetland Loss in the BTNEP (1839 to 2020)

Courtesy of Shirley Laska and CHART, UNO

I hear this one regularly. ‘We need to let the scientists and engineers tell us

what to do.’ [B]ut, of course, a scientist or an engineer can’t tell you

what to do. They can inform what you do, but inherently, it’s a value

judgment.

Inreach

…the idea has just occurred to me the last few weeks that I have something to say here. I could write some papers to places like Ecology or other journals, or other teaching places about how one can go about new ways of doing things that people may not have thought about.

The Nixonion DemurralI don’t have an agenda except to educate people. I’m not an activist. I really never have been an activist… I think you’ll find amongst the scientific community that there are scientists that just do their scientific job. They communicate their ideas. But they don’t stand out there and stand on their pulpit and make speeches.

Gentle Communicator

Screaming on the insideIt’s like you and me are up in the bow of the Titanic. We have the knowledge. We see the iceberg. Nobody else on the boat sees it. We know what’s going to happen….When it hits the iceberg, we’re going down with the ship. That’s where we are right now [in southern Louisiana].

It’s part of the role of a scientist. Just like a doctor saying, “Don’t smoke.” It’s clear.

More screamingWho else is going to sound the alarm? I think if you can do it in an objective fashion, say, “Listen, wetlands are absolutely essential to maintaining southern Louisiana. If we continue building levees, we’re going to lose the wetlands.” Those things need to be said.

If the train is going down and the bridge is out five miles [away], it’s not apocalyptic to say we’ve got to stop the train. [It’s our responsibility] to raise the alarm.

Scientific Paul Reveres

Things our experts did

• Write papers• Gave tours• Give interviews• Model things• Criticize the Corps• Criticize university administrators