Article: Tomgram: Stan Cox, A Big Climate Win in Big Sky Country - The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana s constitution couldn t be clearer: The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations. Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there[.]
Article: Tomgram: Stan Cox, A Big Climate Win in Big Sky Country - The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana s constitution couldn t be clearer: The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations. Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there[.]
By Stan Cox, the author of The Green New Deal and Beyond (2020) and The Path to a Livable Future (2021). The original version of this article was published by…
The only way that we humans can live within nature’s resource restraints and ecological boundaries is to redirect our economies toward meeting all people’s basic needs, and away from producing material overabundance.