The government’s own environmental reviews of its programs are structurally biased

Evidence

Daniel Ashini wonders why Canadians don’t see the “inherent bias of a process where the federal government is establishing the terms for a review of its own program. It’s like asking McDonald’s to conduct a study on whether or not it makes good hamburgers. Of course they are going to say they make the best hamburgers in the world.” — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 307

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Pentagon’s self-review of its construction spending in Base Nation — states adjudicating harms they themselves inflict recur across the reader’s library. — connects to: Canada dismissed Innu harm observations as unscientific while compensating settlers for identical damage — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 306; Environmental review documents omit or erase the communities they harm — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1071; Official exculpatory reports themselves enact the systemic bias they deny. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 611

Broader Connections

• Official exculpatory reports themselves enact the systemic bias they deny. #expands (0.91) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 611
• Environmental review documents omit or erase the communities they harm #expands (0.82) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1071