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Fundamental Principles Of Law For The Anthropocene?, Nicholas A. Robinson
Fundamental Principles Of Law For The Anthropocene?, Nicholas A. Robinson
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
A wide array of questions arises from global change to confront environmental law. The IPCC has examined social decisions affecting the climate in the design of human settlements, transport systems, industrialisation, agriculture and silviculture, waste management, provisions for energy, and virtually all other socio-economic dimensions of human life. The AR-5, too, cannot avoid raising issues of human ethics and values at local and regional scales. Such issues reach environmental policy and law directly. The IPCC’s AR-5 report furthers widespread public debate about the human dimensions of climate change, and how social theory relates to environmental change. Already, climate change has …
Keynote Address: We Must Take America Back, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Keynote Address: We Must Take America Back, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
I want to talk about what is happening in the United States, and the connection between the environment and democracy, and the corrosive impact of excessive corporate power and the impact to democracy everywhere. But particularly I want to focus on American democracy.