Environment

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Bjørn on The Takeaway

Listen to Bjørn Lomborg talk climate change on The Takeaway.

Lomborg in Guardian

Juliette Jowit of The Guardian reviews Bjørn Lomborg‘s legacy and tackles how he would spend $100 billion to better humanity.

Understanding the “Ethical” Consumer

Companies wanting to target ethically minded consumers need to understand some hard truths about human motivation and action if they want to capitalize on a growing trend, argue Timothy M. Devinney, Pat Auger & Giana M. Eckhardt.

Fear and Climate Change

Bjorn Lomborg, editor of Smart Solutions to Climate Change, writes that fear may be a great motivator in combating climate change in the short term, but it is a terrible basis for making smart decisions about a complicated problem that demands our full intelligence for a long period. Read the article here.

Fish with Fanged Tongue – A Discovery in the Census of Marine Life

From National Geographic: “Australia’s ‘terrifying’ dragonfish uses its many fangs—which even stud its tongue—to hook hard-to-find prey in the cold, dark depths, scientists say. The banana-size fish is one of tens of thousands of both known and new species included in a new inventory released today by the Census of Marine Life, a decade-long ocean-exploration project.” What be in the sea?!