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1/6 Is #Conservation ultimately effective?
Is our research and practice sufficient, in an emergency?
Building from work with @clairefrwordley in @NatureEcoEvo, I think the answers are a clear No
and No
#DICECON20 #ConEffect1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0979-y
Is our research and practice sufficient, in an emergency?
Building from work with @clairefrwordley in @NatureEcoEvo, I think the answers are a clear No
and No #DICECON20 #ConEffect1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0979-y
2/6 Cons actions can be effective – they save 
from extinction & slow deforestation
But we are still rapidly losing nature. We win battles, but we’re losing the war. Badly
Why? We address symptoms not causes, & our (unspoken) theory of change is faulty
#DICECON20
from extinction & slow deforestationBut we are still rapidly losing nature. We win battles, but we’re losing the war. Badly
Why? We address symptoms not causes, & our (unspoken) theory of change is faulty
#DICECON20
3/6 Is there another way to catalyse change?
Civil disobedience or non-violent direct action
(NVDA) was instrumental in many great social & political changes of 20th Century
They were dangerous dissenters then, but they are history’s heroes now
#DICECON20 #ConEffect1
Civil disobedience or non-violent direct action
(NVDA) was instrumental in many great social & political changes of 20th Century They were dangerous dissenters then, but they are history’s heroes now
#DICECON20 #ConEffect1
4/6 Since 2018 NVDA has changed the conversation on climate
- Climate emergency declarations (gov + local gov)
- First binding targets
-
media attention
- Massive public concern
- Changing behav. norms
But nature is being left behind https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13964-y
#DICECON20
- Climate emergency declarations (gov + local gov)
- First binding targets
-
media attention- Massive
public concern- Changing behav. norms
But nature is being left behind https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13964-y
#DICECON20
5/6 Saving the biosphere 
means system change. Another paper 
won’t do that, but NVDA might
Conservationists have never been neutral, objective observers – ours is a value-driven science. So the question now is tactics
#DICECON20 #ConEffect1
means system change. Another paper won’t do that, but NVDA mightConservationists have never been neutral, objective observers – ours is a value-driven science. So the question now is tactics
#DICECON20 #ConEffect1
6/6 Our conservation science and practice is essential, but it’s not sufficient. This is an emergency, let’s act like it
Please join @ScientistsX and @ExtinctionR, and support those taking the struggle for nature to the streets
Thank you
have a baobab flower
#DICECON20
Please join @ScientistsX and @ExtinctionR, and support those taking the struggle for nature to the streets
Thank you
have a baobab flower #DICECON20
