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Comments on: "Penalties apply". Can you legislate behaviour change?
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Treats for changemakers, from Les Robinson.Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:05:40 +0000
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By: Anonymous
https://www.enablingchange.com.au/blog/denialresistance-2/penalties-apply-can-you-legislate-behaviour-c/#comment-24
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:43:16 +0000http://enablingchange.posterous.com/penalties-apply-can-you-legislate-behaviour-c#comment-24<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Enforcement feels like it SHOULD be part of the toolkit. But one person’s enforcement is another person’s criminalisation. We humans may be hard to mobilise to do good things, but we are superb and highly motivated resistors. The psychology of resistance is seriously under-theorised and does not form part of the debates we well-meaning change agents have about change (when we even bother to have a debate). I’ve become more and more concerned about the effects of resistance and the seat belt story illustrates some of the impacts of resistance. Laws against the clearing of native vegetation could be another case study (Google the work of Dr Robyn Bartel). Although no one has figured out how to evaluate the resource condition impact of these laws, the level of resistance has been so ubiquitous and intense that it’s quite likely there would be MORE native vegetation around now if we had never passed such laws. We need to be far more critical about our assumptions in future.</div><div>- Les</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="width: 600px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" class="PosterousEmail"></div></div></body></html>
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By: Damien Sweeney
https://www.enablingchange.com.au/blog/denialresistance-2/penalties-apply-can-you-legislate-behaviour-c/#comment-23
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:36:54 +0000http://enablingchange.posterous.com/penalties-apply-can-you-legislate-behaviour-c#comment-23Without looking a the original source of Adam’s study comparing stats in countries with seat belt laws and those without, I wonder whether the countries were truly comparable (in terms of number of cars etc). Perhaps injuries and fatalities have not dropped because of seat belts, but perhaps they have not increased as the number of cars has increased on our roads (and also the speeds that they can achieve etc). Unfortunately, its not a case of all other things being equal (or for the economists, ceterus parabus!), so I think the stats can be a bit misleading in such cases. I think that legislating change (and enforcement) has an important place in sustainability- the only pity is that it is used so haphazardly, rather than holistically.
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