{"id":6701,"date":"2016-06-27T06:34:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T06:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2016-06-27T06:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T06:34:26","slug":"one-badger-one-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/06\/27\/one-badger-one-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"One badger, one vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something of an argument for giving wildlife the vote, given how much humans depend on it (well, the biosphere in general) for our continuing well-being and survival. \u00a0Putting this into operation is the difficult thing. \u00a0<em>One badger,\u00a0one vote,<\/em> might have a progressive ring to it, but it\u00a0would surely be a policy too far, and anyway there would be great difficulty in keeping the electoral register up to date, let alone arranging for postal votes.<\/p>\n<p>But this is why we have wildlife charities. \u00a0They are the ones that, through their campaigning, urge us to vote always with wildlife in mind.<\/p>\n<p>We were urged to do this in the recent referendum, being constantly reminded by the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts, the saintly Bob Geldof, and many others, that we'd all soon be going to hell in a handcart if we didn't vote to remain in the EU. \u00a0Except it would\u00a0seem not to have worked, and the handcart is outside the door.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps it <em>did<\/em> work; perhaps the wildlife charities really did influence people to vote to remain. \u00a0But, maybe these were the wrong people. \u00a0Maybe they were going to be pro-EU\u00a0anyway. \u00a0Maybe the sort of people who listen to messages from wildlife charities were always likely to be pro-EU.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the wildlife charities should make greater efforts to influence those that don't think usually like they do, such as\u00a0people with only a handful of GCSEs to their name (if that), 68% of whom, according to YouGov, are likely to\u00a0have voted to\u00a0Leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something of an argument for giving wildlife the vote, given how much humans depend on it (well, the biosphere in general) for our continuing well-being and survival. \u00a0Putting this into operation is the difficult thing. \u00a0One badger,\u00a0one vote,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}