A result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope there is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all d of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic news that since us humans across the globe been spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guardian other outlets are are now reporting that according to satellite imagery from the European Space agency the coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air peru pollution levels around the world and that levels of nitrogen dioxide over cities and industrial clusters in asia and europe were markedly lower than the same period last year. Meanwhile another bit of great news for both the environment and remind us of our ability to change the world the Standing Rock sioux tribe just want to major victory in
A result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope there is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic news that since us humans across the globe been spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guardian other outlets are are now reporting that according to satellite imagery from the European Space agency the coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air proo pollution levels around the world and that levels of nitrogen dioxide over cities and industrial clusters in asia and europe were markedly lower than the same period last year. Meanwhile another bit of great news for both the environment and remind us of our ability to change the world the Standing Rock sioux tribe just won a major victory in cou
Are facing as a result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope there is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic news that since us humans across the globe been spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guardian other outlets are now reporting that according to satellite imagery from the European Space agency the corona virus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air peru pollution levels around the world and that levels of nitrogen dioxide over cities and industrial clusters in asia and europe were markedly lower than the same period last year. Meanwhile another bit of great news for both the environment and remind us of our ability to change the world the Standing Rock sioux tribe just won a major vic
We are going to be looking at and wire mental legal doctrine, more broadly its social philosophical, kind of issues to grapple with. We also talked at the beginning of the semester, about how society deals with times of aggregate. The big pitchers the effects of large numbers of individual personal disputes on the big picture. And we will be dealing in talking about aggregates a little bit today. The class will lead to a couple of Big Questions big question number one, how much can we regulate in the interest of protecting the environment, big question number two who actually gets to advocate on behalf of the environment, or governmental issues. Those are the two things we are going to be focusing on all right, im going to begin today on talk about environmental change in u. S. History, including what was and what was not instinctive about the consciousness we refer to as environmentalism. When it came onto the scene in the mid 20th century. And let me introduce you to problems. And he
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 . Well be dealing and thinking in aggregates a little bit today as well, all right . Its a class that will lead to a couple of big questions, all right . Big question number one, how much can we regulate private property in the interest of protecting the environment, all right . Big question number two, who actually gets to advocate o