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Put an end to roadside zoos
Contrary to how it might feel, fondling dangerous animals only accentuates the divide between us and them. Haven’t we done enough to force that divide already? Read more at The Guardian.
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Big Oil and Baboons: On Culture, Conscience, and Climate Denial
Article for the Culture & Conscience series at the Center for Humans and Nature. If we assume our evolutionary predispositions represent hardware, we can consider both culture and the conscience as software. Read more here
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The shaming of Walter Palmer for killing Cecil the Lion
Rather than simply ruining the life of one dentist, some arguably good things have come from this case. Read more at The Conversation.
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Public shaming can make the world a better place
The discussion about 21st-century shaming usually turns to cases in which an otherwise well-behaved person posts a tweet or photograph that results in excessive punishment by an anonymous and bloodthirsty online crowd which ruins that person’s life for a while. Many people, myself included, object to this form of vigilantism. But other examples of shaming…
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Ocean calamities: hyped litany or legitimate concern?
Our response to the article “Reconsidering Ocean Calamities” in BioScience.
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We are not *NOT* evolved to respond to climate change
Article for the Mind & Morality series at the Center for Humans and Nature. We are not built to solve climate change, but we were also not not built to solve it. Read more here.
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Fishbook
Friends, heroes, frenemies, ex-girlfriends in bikinis: Facebook grants access to a lot of people. The limit of the social networking giant is that it includes only humans. As we become increasingly urbanized and isolated from wilderness, important interactions with other members of life’s fabric become more tenuous. We have two options: (1) we could develop…
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What can conservationists learn from investor behavior?
How do we encourage personal savings and investment? Answers to this question, revealed through new analyses in experimental economics, provide insight into how to encourage collective savings and investment in our future through ecological conservation. There are three lessons to be learned. Jacquet, J. (2009) What can conservationists learn from investor behavior? Conservation Biology 23(3):…
Jennifer Jacquet 