Fish Need A Wider Spectrum of Voices
Category: Oceans
We need groups arguing against the consumption of seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:17 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Seeking reason amidst the irrational madness of destroying one's only home.
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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.
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August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:
July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation: Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.
June 2009: In press at Oryx: "Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts"
June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?
May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.
May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:
March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.
March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.
March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.
February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
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April 29, 2009
April 28, 2009
What Happened to Your Clients? We Ate Them...
Category: Food Systems
In an extension of first shifting baselines post where Randy Olson and I argued over whether to continue eating seafood, I wrote a guest post last week for The Reef Tank titled What happened to your clients? Um. We ate...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:04 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2009
Fish photos from the Florida Keys: The Shifting Baselines Story of 2009
Category: Shifting Baselines
Fish photos from Florida Keys show shifting baselines
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:09 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2009
Obama on Guilt
Category: Bookworm
...it was the one trick my mother always had up her sleeve, that way she had of making me feel guilty. She made no bones about it, either. "You can't help it," she told me once. "Slipped it into...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:48 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2009
Green Guilt at a Low
Category: Guilt
Jared Flesher discussed this week A Decline in 'Green Guilt' at the NYTimes Green Inc. Blog. Some groups attribute the decline to the fact that Americans are doing more for the environment (more people are carpooling and planting gardens, especially...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:36 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guilt-Laden Language in Conservation
Category: Guilt
Call it religious, call it effective (or ineffective), call it trite. The fact is, there is a lot of guilt-laden language in the conservation movement. Because this will help lay the foundation for future discussions, I wanted to present some...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:03 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2009
Average vs. Extreme Consumers
Category: Conversations with Brainiacs
Back in 2005, I interviewed fisheries biologist Daniel Pauly for a small article on seafood consumer campaigns. This would evolve into the work we do today. I was not able to publish large chunks of the transcripts then, but I...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:33 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Albinos Not Safe After All
Category: The Struggle for Existence
I mentioned in my last post that humans love rare things, but not necessarily albinos. As Justin pointed out in the comments, that is not exactly true. White-skinned albinos are hunted by other humans throughout eastern and central Africa because...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2009
Humans Love Rare Things; Albinos Safe, Endangered Species Screwed
Category: Psychology of Conservation
Two new experiments from French scientists show that humans love rare things. Not rarities, as in oddities, as in albinos. But rare things as in: not many of them left. That is bad news for many animals and conservation efforts....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 7:46 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Welcome to Guilty Planet
Category: Guilt
"We are all parasites," a friend recently remarked as our train moved past the graffiti covered walls of Berlin. "Anyone who does not understand this--or thinks that somehow the good that they do in this world outweighs the bad--is delusional."...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:25 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
