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Dr. Brian Czech | Gag-Ordered No More: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the U.S. Government | 24 April 2024 at 13:30 EDT
April 24 @ 13:30 - 16:30 EDT
Speaker: Dr. Brian Czech
Topic: Gag-Ordered No More: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the U.S. Government
Time: Apr 24, 2024 at 13:30 Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)
Brian Czech was the first “Conservation Biologist” (by that title) in the history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He brought to FWS headquarters field experience, academic achievement, and a specialty in the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. The latter was welcomed at first, but eventually the gag orders came, and a promising prospect for raising public awareness of limits to growth was destroyed. Czech’s new book (and the CACOR talk) is a story about the 800-pound gorilla of economic growth, erosion of First Amendment rights in civil service, and a vision for conservation agencies going forward.
Brian Czech, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, which he founded in 2003. From 1999-2017, Czech served in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During most of that time (2001-2015), he was also a visiting professor at Virginia Tech. Czech is the author of four books, the latest being Gag-Ordered No More: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the U.S. Government.