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Behavioural interventions for low-meat consumption: An alternative to command and control taxes
The ideas presented here – Health Warnings on Meat, Meat Offsetting, and Meat Health Ratings – could be introeuced painlessly and may have a genuine effect on consumer behavior. Waving away the protests of those who find such images unseemly (“how dare our children be confronted with the reality of the food they eat?”) there is really no reason not to take these small and unrestrictive measures. Continue reading
What About Bob?
What Bob is not is more important than what he is. He is not lefty, he is not greeny, he is not sustainability, and he is not global warming.
He is a catchall. An everyman. A squirrel of the people. The sort of long-eared red head you could chat about sensible things with in an English pub.
The Nigel Farage of the environment movement. The middle England, middle class everyman. Continue reading
Nature as fairness and the redistribution of ecological wealth
There is a huge power imbalance between human society and the natural world. We have a duty to allow other forms of life to coexist and realise the utility they provide. It is time for a reappraisal of how we … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, biodiversity loss, ecosystem approach, ecosystem functions, ecosystem health, Ecosystem services, enviromental utilitarianism, environmental movement, environmental socialism, Environmentalism, fairness, Making Space for Nature, Natural capital, nature
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