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Douglas Edwards 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺

@karlauerbach Each and every partner in each and every #lawfirm that has made a corrupt #protection deal with this #Nazi administration should also be disbarred. The supposedly free attorney work provided to the Nazis under these deals is NOT pro bono. It's #payola. And the disbarments shouldn't wait until #MAGA is over; they should begin NOW.

Fortunately, the vast majority of lawfirms whose position is known have NOT made protection-racket deals; they have told the Nazis to go to hell. Lawyers so far have a much better record of defiance than universities or corporations.

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Providing the environment with rights under law - surely an idea, long talked about whose time has come?

New books by Robert Macfarlane and Tony Juniper strengthen the case for granting the natural environment protection in law on par with personhood. Both books provide stimulating and uncomfortable reading.

archive.today/2025.04.26-04324 (archived copy)

A screenshot from the linked article - reads ‘When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, her words, with their graphic warnings about pesticides, gave rise to a new environmental consciousness that still hadn’t reached my corner of London by the mid-1970s, when I was a schoolboy. We learnt how to dissect the eye of a lamb but nothing of the human’s relationship to the natural world. Nor had the new consciousness filtered into mainstream teaching when I was a law student, with no environmental courses on offer even as the Earth’s ozone layer thinned and new global rules were proclaimed to protect the world’s oceans. For international law, which was beginning to give serious attention to environmental issues, the moment of catalytic change came with the Chornobyl nuclear accident in April 1986. As radioactive rains fell in Wales and elsewhere, farmers were banned from selling their lamb. As a young academic, I was invited to Washington to a conference on international law and transboundary air pollution, about which I knew nothing. ‘
The from Cover of a book showing a tree stump, titled ‘Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment.’ And discussed in the article
#BookReviews#Environment#Protection
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