Joshua Burguete-Kirkman
Master’s Student in Environmental Management & Policy at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics Lund, Sweden
A policy for us and the sharks
An attempt at reason and at communicating opportunitiesEmotions are high across Australia over the WA government’s aggressive and ill-advised set of policies in response to shark attacks within its state. The most controversial of which is the policy of culling sharks of a particular size and species. Those in favour of the policies claim that sharks are a menace that must be dealt with by any means (scientifically proven or not) and that the reactions of some on the east coast is hypocritical (as there are nets on the east coast that kill more…Joshua Burguete-Kirkman4 min read