Is Environmental Science Really Science?

Environmental Science is critical to space travel according to this environmentalist.

Well maybe if we redefine Environmental Science beyond what it might have become.
Academic ecological and environmental science inquiries are observational and the important stuff in Environmental Science is derivative of knowledge in the harder sciences, organic and biochem, biophysics, other subdivisions and parts of biology, botany and geology/astrophysics/meteorology, paleontology. Then if enviro sceince claims those areas of inquiry, it could be important for space travel. Most Environmental Scientists are not that deep and if they are they call themselves something else.
Annalee Newitz is the editor-in-chief of io9 and this is her column. She’s also the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.
Here’s her essay on how enviro science is critical to space travel.
http://io9.com/the-one-scientific-field-most-likely-to-get-humanity-in-1561393955
Since Environmental Science as practiced in Academia is more like a combination of politics and the theology of pantheism, a good Environmental Scientist has to shed the robe of the Fanatic Leftist Pantheist Central Planner Acadmic to be a good Enviro Scientist.
Note this writer wrote a book on how to avoid human extinction, and she is also very attracted to the idea that a space ship is going to be a very rigid and well controlled environment, a great place for Central Planner types.
. When environmental science is at it’s best its observational inquiry borrowing from some hard sciences at varying depth.
So physics and chemistry are hard science, biology not so much except in physiology and biochem and tox studies. But let’s imagine an environmental scientist’s contributions to .