Guilty Planet
Seeking reason amidst the irrational madness of destroying one's only home.
The Guilty Planet Blog
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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- Using Reputation to Save the Oceans
- Weird Oceans: Coral Eating Jelly, Blobfish, and Lumpsuckers
- Use the Force against the Dark Side of Food
- Levitt and Dubner Visit Seattle
- Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King (for a Time)
- Loose Tentacles Sink Ships
- A Memorial for Vanishing Species
- Frogs in Boiling but Confusing Water: A Review of Climate Cover-Up
- Morton on Arts vs. Science
- Dehumanized and Possibly Deluded
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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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What, Me Worry?
I grew up in middle America in a state without oceans reading MAD Magazine. Robert Boyd recently published an article in the L.A. Times on his impressions of MAD, which I gladly substitute as my own:
"The magazine instilled in me a habit of mind, a way of thinking about a world rife with false fronts, small print, deceptive ads, booby traps, treacherous language, double standards, half truths, subliminal pitches and product placements; it warned me that I was often merely the target of people who claimed to be my friend; it prompted me to mistrust authority, to read between the lines, to take nothing at face value, to see patterns in the often shoddy construction of movies and TV shows; and it got me to think critically in a way that few actual humans charged with my care ever bothered to."
This MAD-inspired critical thinking coupled with concern for our environment has led to my participation in ScienceBlogs, a colorful outcrop of science and culture. Unlike the gap-toothed Alfred E. Neuman, I am truly worried, especially for the future for the planet and its voiceless inhabitants. I hope to contribute to a discussion on how to conserve our global commons with a MAD spirit and with gracious contributions from science and supporters. So, welcome to guilty planet where we will seek reason amidst the irrational madness of destroying one's only home.
