Everything there is to say about the subject, which could obviously be an entire course in its own right, but rather today im going to focus on a few recurring big picture problems that Environmental Issues pose for the subject matter of this class, namely law and society. If you remember when we went back to day one, day two of this class and we talked about what law and society is, we talked about how law and society is often the study of law and legal issues outside of the box of legal doctrine or sort of outside the box of legal logic, all right . Well be looking at environmental law and litigation, not simply through questions and american legal doctrine but more broadly as kind of social, philosophical issues to grapple with, all right . We also talked in the beginning of the semester how law and society deals, at times, in aggregates, right . Its sort of the big picture or sort of the effects of large numbers of kind of individual personal disputes on the big picture, all right
You uphold the universe by the words of your power. Today, walk with our senators as they work. Help them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning without study, and no mastery without discipline. Give them the wisdom to be willing to pay the price to honor you. Provide them with joy in service and devotion in discipleship. Infuse them with a spirit of power, love, and selfcontrol. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute in morning business. An oped i penned recently mentioned countries that still has laws on the books and it touched the nerve in bangladesh. I certainly didnt mean to imply that it was the worst off
It could affect all kinds of areas, even here in downtown santa rosa. It is a no win for anybody. Imagine owning a Family Grocery store for 60 years and not knowing whether all your cold items on your shelves will turn into uninsured losses. Now youre walking in the shoes of joe musclesbury. If they shut us down, it could kill a Small Company like. Wearing as pg e contemplates another Public Safety shutoff, or psps as anacronym, and all to prevent sparking wildfires. Have i colleagues in mono county who say psps . Im pspsed off. After the firestorm two years ago, supervisor james gore vowed to make this region more responsive shutoff possessed their own set of problems. They will send notice to the governor about it. You cannot mitigate one disaster and create a second and not have responsibility for it. Christopher godly runs emergency management. Were going to lose cell phone towers potentially. And in the long run, if we have a fire that that starts while were still deenergized, its
Millions are beginning tojoin a day of demonstrations around the world demanding action on Climate Change, ahead of next weeks un summit. Theyre expected to spread from the asia pacific, through europe and africa, to the americas. We can take you live now to sydney, in australia, where the protests are under way. We understand thousands of Australian School students walking out of classrooms across the country. They have particular problems with the current government, of course, and the governments environmental policies. All this three days before the un Climate Summit in new york and those strikes this year, 1. 5 million roughly took part worldwide. These strikes are expected to be bigger and there is likely to be a stronger presence from unions, workers and companies who signed up to strike in solidarity with the young activists. We will be speaking to our correspondent here in just a few moments. But we will come back to him injusta moments. But we will come back to him injust a m
Professors. This portion is an hour and 10 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This subcommittee is convening our third in the series of Climate Change hearings, focusing on recovery, resiliency and readiness with Natural Disasters. I recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Y as i mentioned, this hear suggest the third in a series of hold to congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, the today the subcommittee turns to the impact of claimant change on Natural Disasterrers. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent, due to Climate Change. Climate change is real and were constantly reminded of that fact in terrifying ways. Just two weeks ago, it was reported that greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice