So 50% say they know it improves health and 65% said they would try it if they had evidence it improved health? Something isn't squaring there.

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What does this mean? Broader structural forces move the CIWB but presidential party does matter. Democrats do a bit better than Republicans at reducing CIWB but both parties need to do more to lower carbon emissions while improving human well-being.

The results of autoregressive distributed lag models from 1960-2023 show that shifts from a Republican to a Democrat president are associated with a 1% reduction in CIWB one year later, but I did not find evidence of long-run effects based on political party.

Critical perspectives argue that Democrats and Republicans are similar in upholding the status quo, neither making significant moves when it comes to the environment or human well-being. Others argue there are significant differences in how each party affects the environment and human well-being.

The CIWB is a ratio of carbon emissions to life expectancy - a measure of environmental stress needed to produce human well-being.

A lower CIWB is therefore a desirable outcome in terms of sustainability.

And the schools are only hiring specific kinds of music teachers. Piano specialty? Already got one of those. We're looking for someone who can play and teach violin.

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Felt inspired by your post and made an interactive graphic on Tableau Public showing cost of doing business and quality of life and the trend line.

public.tableau.com/views/CNBC20...

This is a work in progress as I continue to learn Tableau and the most effective ways to communicate this concept.

But the adjusted CIWB measure is perhaps easier to understand and use to set goals - something I discuss with my coauthors in our recent paper in Environmental Sociology (linked).

This visualization helps provide the tools to set those goals and see how countries have progressed since 1970.

The visualizations include unadjusted and adjusted measures of the carbon intensity of well-being. Adjusted measures are typically used in environmental sociological analyses because they help account for the different scales of carbon emissions and life expectancy.

This interactive visualization includes maps and line graphs of the carbon intensity of well-being for almost every country on earth from the years 1970-2023 (you can use the drop down menu to select countries, and sliders to view years on maps).

The data come from the World Bank.

This suggests the importance of moving beyond merely criminalizing bird hunting. In this region of Iran, at least, fostering social norms against illegal hunting is an important step to address this problem.

We found that informal deterrence (e.g. disappointing family) had a similar, and even slightly stronger, association with illegal hunting behavior than even formal deterrence (e.g. laws against hunting).