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Racism and types of thinking
I don’t usually stray from “the environment” but I am cross about something connected with racism, so will write about it. A couple of days ago, UKIP MEP Janice Atkinson got into hot water because she was recorded in a … Continue reading
The dream
Some luxuriate in a technological dream – where technology pampers them and provides every comfort and solves every problem. But immediate satisfaction and the elimination of the rough edges of life eventually stale. Their only challenge is to create more … Continue reading
Beauty in the wrong place is ugliness: conversation with a (nice) psychogardener
Walking back from the shops this afternoon, down Németvölgyi út in Budapest, I saw a lady pulling up all the grasses, wild carrot, plantain, wood sorrel and other “weeds” lining the edge of the pavement. Since I like lots of … Continue reading
Bomb the Chinese to save the elephant
Every day on Twitter I see gruesome facts and photographs about the murder of elephants. A headline in Huffington Post refers to an unread article that elephants, highly intelligent and sensitive and emotional animals, will be extinct by 2020. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, behavioural economics, China, elephants, horn, ivory, poaching, rhinos, wildlife
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Old ladies and German football
Old ladies and German football can teach the World Bank a bit about economics. From time to time we hear from the World Bank and other economists that the way to protect nature is to put a price on it. … Continue reading