Category Archives: Cats & Birds

Cook with Olive Oil, Kill Birds

Anthropocene, Biodiversity, Cats & Birds, Ecological Economics, Economics, Environmental Ethics, Information Asymmetry, Market Failure, Markets, Nature, Olive Oil, Opinion, Regulation, Sustainability, Technology Assessment, Values, Wildlife
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The theory of efficient markets, when applied beyond financial markets, is proposed by those who bridle against government regulation of business.  Their idea is that markets will punish bad behavior of individual firms or even whole industries and thus create incentives for firms to produce goods and services without harming employees, consumers, or the environment.  […]

Open Season on Chickadees

Anthropocene, Biodiversity, Bird life, Cats & Birds, Environment, Feral Cats, history, Nature, Opinion, Public Policy, Values, Wilderness
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It was an honor to give the Geddes Simpson Memorial Lecture at UMaine last week.  In the lecture I put forth the proposition that the State of Maine adopt an open firearms season on chickadees under which every holder of a hunting license could shoot an unlimited number of chickadees during the year.  After all, the […]