Conservation Biology

you should know…

Key drivers -> key solutions -> how to get them implemented

copypaste SOLUTIONS

• youth education and advocacy
• switching to renewables
• reducing demand
• plant-based agriculture, end of animal agriculture
• move away from growth-based economic system, include externalities & ecosystem services in measures of economic success
• reduce the influence of money on political power

copypaste ULTIMATE DRIVERS

• consumerism / overconsumption

• capitalism / growth orientated economics

• overpopulation

• poor resource management

• corrupt politics / money in politics

• pervasive cultural belief that there is a hierarchy of man above nature

• cultural values, lifestyles, consumer demand

copypaste WAYS TO IMPLEMENT

• emphasis on LOCAL (employ local people, work through smaller scales of government, listen to local input)
• grassroots education programs
• community-based conservation
• mass mobilization (voting, pressuring representatives, protest, voter education, unions, striking)

5 economic solutions

carbon markets (ex. cap and trade), payment for ecosystem services, eco-economic incentives (ex. shade-grown, fair trade, organic certifications; conservation easements), externality evaluations (ex. carbon tax), alternative economies and governments (ex. local currencies, circular economies, lottery governance)

solutions to money in politics

campaign funding limits, make public funding competitive to private, lottery governance, ban lobbying and presence of “big oil” at conferences about climate change and environmentalism

• > voting, pressuring representatives, protest, voter education, mass mobilization, unions, striking

• Art, documentary, social media campaign!