This is the last CSR Newsletter of the Spring semester. Have a great summer and I will see you in the Fall!
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The article in the url below allows me to finish the year's newsletters on a reasonably optimistic note:
“Amsterdam is famously a place where anything goes. Prostitution is legal. Coffee shops sell marijuana and hashish. Truffles laced with the psychoactive compounds found in hallucinogenic mushrooms are available at ‘smart shops.’ But what is no longer allowed in the freewheeling city’s public spaces are advertisements for products that some city councilors consider to be true vices: Big Macs. Exotic vacations. Gas-powered cars.”
And, rather than some distant commitment to vague action (like most sustainability-related 'solutions'), this ban is substantive and relevant today:
“On May 1, Amsterdam became the world’s first capital city to ban ads for fossil fuel products and meat. It’s part of the city’s efforts to discourage consumption of goods linked with high carbon emissions. Ads for airlines, cruises, and faraway destinations are no longer allowed because they implicitly promote the burning of fossil fuels. Ads for beef, chicken, pork and fish are also banned because of the environmental harms caused by animal agriculture.”
The article includes photos of the kind of billboard ads that, starting this past weekend, will no longer be allowed in Amsterdam:
Have a great summer.
David
David Chandler
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In Permissive Amsterdam, Ads for Fossil Fuels or Meat Are Now Verboden
By Cara Buckley
May 1, 2026
The New York Times
