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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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It’s the same reason so many people now cut up their plastic six-pack holders — because the connection between their soda and the strangled sea lion becomes obvious, visual and intimate. It brought the information out of the abstract and into the real, the visceral.

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Should is not a Solution

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I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. Should lends itself to advocacy, a crucial aspect of conservation. I still think that distinction is important, but it isn’t sufficient to explain what is going on here.

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