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Interesting examples. How'd they work out? More disposable bottles and fossil fuels are sold now than ever before. You can still buy cigarettes, and they're st
by leereeves 4y ago
Interesting examples. How'd they work out?
More disposable bottles and fossil fuels are sold now than ever before. You can still buy cigarettes, and they're still as poisonous and addictive as ever, but most people don't want to buy them anymore.
Public policy worked in 0/3 cases. Changing consumer behavior worked in 1/3.
- throwaway894345 4y agoThose weren’t public policies, they were marketing campaigns to divert away from reasonable public policy solutions.
- leereeves 4y agoThey were also public policy goals that were not solved by public policy solutions.
- throwaway894345 4y agoNo one here claimed that every problem has been solved by public policy.
- leereeves 4y agoYou suggested that personal choice was just a distraction from policy-making, but one of your own examples, cigarettes, shows otherwise. Personal choice works.
- throwaway894345 4y agoThere was a national campaign against tobacco. Moreover, no one is accidentally buying cigarettes like they’re buying carbon. It’s not like cigarettes were added to every product in unknown quantities and the public managed to avoid purchasing them. Similarly, people can’t simply opt out of carbon—it’s not like people were previously waltzing up to the counter and asking for some carbon, and now they’re not doing it any more. If that’s your “personal responsibility” example, it’s pretty desperate.