I think Barack Obama's victory is great news in terms of energy policy and other policies related to global warming.
As for research funding, I hate to speculate. Obama will want to increase funding for science and promote science education (including environmental education), which is a big step up from the Bush administration's willful ignorance and neglect. However, he's inheriting two wars, a massive recession, a lousy health-care system, and a budget deficit in excess of a trillion dollars, and there are a lot of things he'd like to do that go beyond solving all these huge problems. As an intelligent adult, he'll be making some unpopular compromises, cutting back on some very worthwhile programs just to pay for the bare necessities. While he clearly sees science and education as very high priorities, I'm not sure how ecology will stack up against all the other issues he will have to address. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Brian?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > What do you think this means in terms of funding, job opportunities, > environmental education, research and policy, etc.? What major changes (if > any) do you think might occur over the next few years that will affect our > personal and professional lives as ecologists? Should we be excited? > > Kind of a vague and open-ended question, I realize, but I'm curious to hear > your thoughts. >
