Social Science Quote of the Week: Sustainability
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Tag: Environment
Social Sacrifice for Sustainability
An economics experiment suggests that ‘most people are willing to make enough of a sacrifice to keep resource use down to where there will be a sustainable environment in the future.’ However, people can become demotivated if they feel their sacrifice is in isolation. Here’s how to keep sustainability goodwill high.
Continue reading “Social Sacrifice for Sustainability”Youth Question the Prime Minister
Students from Sydney’s Newtown High School of the Performing Arts give Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott a tough question time that he was evidently poorly prepared to answer with grace. The clip begins with Abbott giving weak environmental advice (“plant … Continue reading Youth Question the Prime Minister
Innovation Through Social Science
Social scientists are trained to think critically. This doesn’t mean in the colloquial sense. This is about learning a suite of scientific methodologies for framing questions, collecting and analysing evidence and making recommendations.
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Valuing Jobs
Valuing Jobs
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Bob Brown on Australian democracy
Continue reading “Bob Brown on Australian democracy”In the Howard years Australia became a much meaner and more self-interested country … We are the richest people per capita in the world, if you just look in material terms, and we are the richest people ever to live on the Earth… Yet there’s this air of dissatisfaction and a feeling that we are being cheated, and that is a cultural shift that came out of the Howard years and has been promoted mightily by the Murdoch media — and that flows on through the ABC and all the other radio shock jocks and so on….
People voted for that with their eyes wide open [on the removal of environmental policies]. And I might add to that, that they voted for $4 billion dollars in foreign aid to be not spent.
What is the link between sustainability and social justice?
The United Nations Environment Programme states that the full participation of society’s most vulnerable and marginalised groups are essential in environmental management.
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