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Changing Entrenched Behaviors

I was intrigued by this slide from a talk by Michael O’Hare, at the UC-Berkeley’s School of Public Policy. I imagine there would have been few people in 1968 predicting that by 2008 smoking in public places would largely be a thing of the past.

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  1. D42 Says:
    October 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    My boss actually thinks that his wife whom he regards as an extension of himself / his car is a substitute for cigarettes. He also thinks that people who pay attention to him are also there to have their attention “driven”. Hence he carwrecks, and on purpose, frequently. Also because the women I see frequently do not coock for themselves, so they get benched on the table–hence my comment about the “hit me” at 30 mph per hour.

    When the human being dies, it releases energy which your society by the way uses to make money.

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