Developments in the Law — Climate Change
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Local Prosecution in the Era of Climate Change
- Chapter Two: Indigenous Interpretations: Invoking the Third Indian Canon to Combat Climate Change
- Chapter Three: State Preemption of Local Zoning Laws as Intersectional Climate Policy
- Chapter Four: Mandate Versus Movement: State Public Service Commissions and Their Evolving Power over Our Energy Sources
- Chapter Five: The Promise and Perils of Carbon Tariffs
“Don’t it always seem to go
JONI MITCHELL, Big Yellow Taxi, on LADIES OF THE CANYON (Reprise Records 1970).
That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?”
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
CARL SAGAN, PALE BLUE DOT 7 (1994).
“It was all the people of the world who know that we have to change now. And we cannot back down.”
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Remarks at Defiance: Disobedience for the Good of All (July 21, 2017).
“[I]n nature nothing exists alone.”
RACHEL CARSON, SILENT SPRING 51 (1962).
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Angela Y. Davis, Lecture at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Feb. 13, 2014).
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
MARY OLIVER, The Summer Day, in HOUSE OF LIGHT 60 (1990).
with your one wild and precious life?”