To put it lightly, the tobacco industry is unloved. The WHO has led a decades-long campaign to denormalise “Big Tobacco” – ostracising these companies and working with activist allies to exclude them from participating in policy, public discourse and societal institutions. There are an army of institutions and NGOs who have one goal and only…
Category: Virtue Signalling
Righteous Risks Part 3: The Electric Vehicle Halo
EVs are ethically pure. Dirty, evil petrol and diesel cars never had a chance.
Righteous Risks: Introduction
A righteous risk is a threat of harm to societal well-being that arises when decisions are based solely on widely-shared moral perceptions, social virtues and ethical ideals. This value-based policy approach does not consider facts or data in a consistent manner with certain actors, reinforced by social media tribes, imposing their ideals upon others. Righteous…
The EU Greenwashing Directive: Only an Industrial Disease?
Do NGOs and government greenwash? They don’t think so.
The Green Death: How the EU’s Farm2Famine Strategy will Affect a Post-Ukraine World
In times of crisis, we need realpolitik, not ideologues expressing virtue.
The Top Ten KeystoneCorona Moments of 2020: Part 4/10 – Leading by Righteousness
Should leaders rely on virtue or management skills? What if a pandemic strikes?
On the Sanctity of Life … and other Bullshit
What actually happens if the sanctity of life guides all decisions?
The Trump Effect: Stop Telling me What to Think!
How the Trump Effect is more than a narcissistic phenomenon
Agronomy’s AIDS Moment
Was Monbiot’s Apocalypse Cow the crisis agriculture needed to save humanity?
2019: The Year of Celebrity Science
Science has been replaced by celebrity social justice sound-bites.
Why we must ban Christmas
If we love the planet, then ban this barbaric tradition
Trust in the Time of Colic
Has a world without trust led us to endless leaderless protests?
The Risk-Monger 