Tag: Opinion piece
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A coronavirus vaccine is desperately needed, but what are we willing to do to get it?
Tom Edwick dives into the ethics of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development. As we move into month four of lockdown, life as we knew it seems little more than a distant memory. Life in this new covid era has thrown up a lot of fun experiences that I wouldn’t have had to deal with otherwise, like having…
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Should we tax plastic?
Governments across the globe have started to consider the introduction of plastic taxes, with a largely negative reception. In Italy, plans to introduce a plastic tax of €1 per kilo of plastic produced, have faced such intense backlash from plastic manufacturers that the government brushed them under the table. Is the introduction of a plastic…