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A Conversation with Adaptation Lawyer Margaret Peloso
In episode 64 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks with Margaret Peloso, of the law firm Vinson and Elkins. Margaret shares insights from her book Adapting to Rising Sea Levels: Legal Challenges and Opportunities. Doug and Margaret dig into topics such as the conversion of private land to public land as the oceans rise; adaptation and the public trust doctrine; coastal Superfund sites and corporate responsibility; will eminent domain drive coastal planning in the years ahead and much more!
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• The public trust and sea level rise;
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• A new definition of private property;
• Sea level rise and Superfund sites;
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• The legal definition of resilience;
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https://www.amazon.com/Adapting-Rising-Sea-Levels-Opportunities/dp/1611636183
https://www.velaw.com/Who-We-Are/Find-a-Lawyer/Peloso--Margaret/
https://www.velaw.com/AdaptingToRisingSeaLevels/
From the NYT on chemical plants:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/06/climate/flood-toxic-chemicals.html
Predictive tools on SLR to assist the corporate community: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/climate/mapping-future-climate-risk.html
EPA’s page on Superfund and climate change:
https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-climate-change-adaptation
AP article on superfund sites prone to flooding (has a great interactive map): https://www.apnews.com/31765cc6d10244588805ee738edcb36b
Australia Adaptation Summit
http://vicadaptation18.w.yrd.currinda.com/#
http://climate-adaptation-2018.w.yrd.currinda.com/what-39-s-on#program-header


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Orcas, chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins are some of the easiest to see. Four Orca nations off the coast of Vancouver– Northern and Southern Residents, Transients and Offshores. They each have different dialects and languages (hint: just because we do not understand a language does not mean it is not a language), have different cuisines and different traditions, have different kinship structures, etc. Where they live, the waters and those other relations who live there, are their countries.

Humans have states, but everyone has countries, and we all come from nations. Nations are the people-thing. They describe 'from birth' and the shared culture, heritage and stories.

Countries are the lands/waters toward which nations have relationships. Countries change and shift overtime, both in geologic terms and political terms. Think of the use of the term "country" in English, from Scottish Country to Basque Country to Hungarian Country to Tibetan Country to Yoruba Country to Swazi Country to Kurdish Country to Ainu Country to Māori Country to English Country to Québécois Country. Think further on how else we use country: Wolf Country, Salmon Country, Eagle Country, Black Bear Country, Rabbit Country, Emu Country, Giraffe Country, Cedar Country, Sweetgrass Country, Wheat Country, Corn Country, Sandstone Country, Granite Country. Even further to silly ones: Jesus Country, RV Country, Mountain Bike Country

We have just conflated the terms state with country and nation, but they mean different things

Here is a playlist of TED Talks, research videos and similar that should get you thinking about non-human persons

We all can easily agree that a) the world is going up in literal flames and there is a mass extinction event occurring at break-neck speeds and b) the systems that we have in place are those that are causing the global collapse (do I need to cite these or can I just trust this is mainstream enough? /r/collapse otherwise). Well, the system we have in place is inherited from previous systems? And previous systems have seen and are seeing fights to grant personhood → to women, to Indigenous/Turtle Islanders/First Nations/Natives, to Africans and Afro-descendants, to trans and queer folks, et al. Right, like this should be common knowledge, suffragettes and civil rights?

Why would folks think that personhood stops at humans?

Power got centralised to a tiny, tiny minority of light-skinned men, and in that progression of events, almost all life–especially humans–lost personhood. The right to life, to liberty, to freedom of access to that which one needs. And one needs inherited culture, language and stories. Ask any researcher of non-humans, and they will end up saying that [x animal/plant/life] has a unique or specific culture, speaks* in a specific dialect and creates stories out of the dance of life.

This seems wishy-washy, but it is not. Some folks (remember, life, not just humans) tell the stories back either to themselves and/or to others, some just live out their stories. * Language is not just oral, it is manual (think of American Sign Language or Auslan or Atgangmuurniq or Provisle or ProTactile); it is whistled, it is clicked, it is sung, it is danced. Language is complex, and linguistics is really starting to catch on now, slowly. But, watch that playlist and seriously tell any dolphin, elephant, orangutan, raven, orca researcher that those animals do not have language and watch them laugh and correct you.

Back to the structures and systems that got us here. Not only are they a product of that high degree of centralised power, but they are also hinged on misguided notions of superiority over others, over life. We cannot keep treating waters, trees, soils, minerals, fruits and plants, bears, cows and all the rest of our relations like "resources" natural or otherwise. We need to shift away from an ownership and loanership model to a guardianship and caretakership one, for what is ownership but [absolute] superiority over another part of life?

edit: if people are interested, I recommend – Unsettling Canada, A Rightful Place, Secwépemc People, Land and Laws and most relevantly Wild Law

Yes. But to really appreciate the challenges and complexity, you need to understand the international system in which these conversations are happening. (At least, in my opinion).

Start with some history of the int'l system from like, 1900 to 1990. This will help you understand concepts like sovereignty, voluntary hand-binding, and the nature of treaties. Then any textbook on the basics of international law, customary v codified, enforceability, penetration, etc. From there, you can jump into Int'l environmental law. This textbook is a popular one, although it's a bit dense/wordy:

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-International-Environmental-Professor-Philippe/dp/0521140935/ref=dp_ob_image_bk

for something far more accessible, one might try out:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Craft-International-Environmental-Law/dp/0674061799/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496437045&sr=1-1&keywords=the+craft+of+international+environmental+law

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[NEWS, POP CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT] You Can’t Handle the Truth: Rising Sea Levels and the Law (Re-release)

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In episode 98 of America Adapts, which is a re-release of episode 64, Doug Parsons talks with Margaret Peloso, of the law firm Vinson and Elkins. Margaret shares insights from her book Adapting to Rising Sea Levels: Legal Challenges and Opportunities. Doug and Margaret dig into topics such as the conversion of private land to public land as the oceans rise; adaptation and the public trust doctrine; coastal Superfund sites and corporate responsibility; will eminent domain drive coastal planning in the years ahead and much more! Bonus material, Jesse Terry and Alex Wong share their music album about climate change!

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I haven't yet read this, but I've heard it's really good. Also, any of the books under "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" are really good as well.

Hmm, well the thing about the Gothic revival (as you so call it- I would consider Frankenstein to have been in the Romantic era and Dracula and Jekyl and Hyde to have been Victorian) is that a lot of those novels took or straight up interpolate old folk songs and stories- however Gothic literature's revival was put in place by 18th century German writers which influenced the leading lights of the English movement- Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis for example- and these particular writers usually had an advantage in having been able to have read the new German Gothic novels, or German folk stories and poems.

Most of what I'm referring to is explained in detail in the introduction to this edition of Matthew Lewis' The Monk - the most controversial Gothic novel (or even book) of the age and was all written by a 19 year old who was severely bored and ennuied while travelling across Europe. I'd highly recommend it- it's quite erratic; bits of satire, horror and vividly camp sex scenes as well as having insanely bleak moments- but definitely undeservedly ignored and good fun and brilliantly violent.

While if you're looking for a broad overview of Gothic Literature I cannot recommend The Literature of Terror by David Punter any more- he's the expert on the Gothic and has saved my ass and several others many a time in a late night exam cram.

Yes. And plenty of others. It is much easier to understand the truth behind what is presented as science when you understand the corruption that infests the bodies that present it.

Some suggested reading:

http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org

https://www.amazon.com/Bending-Science-Special-Interests-Research/dp/0674047141

I took a class in college in environmental law. It was one of the most interesting class I've taken until grad school.

I don't know much about online lectures, but my textbook was the 8th edition of Environmental Law by Kubasek and Silverman. It was published in the beginning of 2014, so we got to talk a lot about recent laws and Obama.

Hope you look into it!

Credit where credit is due:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1633310213/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_jpqCDbEMHKY07

Green Metropolis - For a good read.

Environmental Justice - For notes from legal cases.

The Environment Equation - For specific steps you can take.

I hadn't thought that through at all - once you mentioned it, I saw how obvious it was - you're right, everything fits in with the Commie cause. =(

Next step - one world government, and all of us worshipping Dear Leader. - For climate change management. Come to mention it - I've already heard European leaders suggesting that too!

The world would be like North Korea, but with no borders to escape to.

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-we-might-need-a-global-government-to-fight-ever-hotter-summers

https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Change-Government-Population-Control-ebook/dp/B01BL2XYLW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government

I found Nigel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to be very readable. Uncomfortable, but has haunted me since I read it years ago.

EDIT: Matthew Lewis' The Monk was also a compelling read for me.

Yes, there are radicals that want total animal liberation, and they do have a particular hatred of sex with animals. A couple of them, Carol J. Adams and Piers Beirne, have written long, detailed arguments on their positions, including why they think sex with animals should always be considered sexual assault. Their reasons pretty much boil down to treating all cases the same as rapes resulting in physical injury and treating pet ownership as similar to slavery, invalidating any claim of consent due to inherent differences in societal power.

The first one depends on ignorance of the issue, while the second depends on a form of feminism that ties individual consent to societal power structures which are difficult to demonstrate at best. Their ideas are cookie cutter Marxism applied to animals, and like all Marxism, they dismiss the rights of individuals in favor of winning an idealized class struggle, resulting in even more suffering by almost everyone they claim to be helping.

In short, their view of the world is fundamentally warped by ideology, and as a result does not have the mass appeal needed to effect real change. They cannot succeed without becoming totalitarian rulers, and while things have been getting more chaotic politically in the Western world, they have not fallen apart to that extent, nor will they as long as people continue to call out their stupidity and cruelty.

>Please explain to me how resources are collectively pooled together in specific real life terms.

In the real world common-pool resources have worked like this: There is a particular resource and a community entitled to it's use, say, a common grazing field and the local farmers that share it for grazing. In order for this common grazing field to allow the farmers to appropriate the resource with out over-consuming it, the common-pool resource system features these characteristics:

1. Clear group boundaries.
   
   
2. Common rules and standards for managing the commons adapted to local conditions.
   
   
3. Participation of all affected by the rules in the decision-making process.
   
   
4. Autonomy for the community to self-organize.
   
   
5. Monitors that are a part of and/or directly accountable to the community, who ensure all are following the rules.
   
   
6. The use of graduated sanctions against rule-breakers.
   
   
7. Easily accessible dispute resolution mechanisms.
   
   
8. In the case of large scale commons, organization in the form of nested enterprises, with the local unit at the bottom.
   
   A particular, contemporary real life example of this is the Maine lobsteries (see here for a simple description). The lobstermen divided themselves in seven nested zones where they built councils and elected delegates that determine rules - a limits on the number of traps they are allowed to fish, time and day of fishing, number of traps per string, etc. Lobstermen who break the rules face regular sabotage from their peers until they follow the rules again. An older example which existed up until the late 19th century would be the Russian Mir or Obshchina communes, which were village communities where land was owned in common but each family worked on a particular strip which was periodically re-allocated, and collections of different mir formed an assembly called volost. The Mir was protected by law from insolvency since it was determined that it could not lose it's land nor the peasants lose their houses and farm equipment.
   
   So far i've only discussed fisheries and farm-land but these design principles can also be adapted to other natural resources (from oil to mines and etc) and to a human-made resource to be pooled-in among members of a commons. An example of that would be the common irrigation systems in Nepal (alternatively, see here) or the aforementioned industrial federations in revolutionary Barcelona in 1936.
   
   On a world-scale, it would work in the form of nested enterprises with the local management at the base.
   
   >Surely there must be a central body that monitors how much is too much of resources consumed? Relying on peer to peer collective arragements leaves it to disorder and anarchy since different collectives have different estimates on what is the appropriate level of risk.
   
   Central authorities are terribly inefficient at monitoring such a thing as they cannot properly read and process large amounts of information that are decentralized, contextual and rapidly changing in nature. Decentralized peer-to-peer organization may face clunkiness at times, but a single mistake made by a central authority can put a whole network in jeopardy - such as the poor decisions made by Stalinist planners during collectivization made millions of peasants starve despite the higher technological development, whereas the mir system had worked on a more or less stable manner for centuries.
   
   >What are the benefits it loses, since it has the least to lose since it has the most proportion of resources compared to other collectives?
   
   Unless the fire has literally destroyed the entirety of the resource available to everyone except for one incredibly lucky collective that now monopolizes it all, the access to further common resources can always be withheld, sanctioned or cut entirely.
   
   >One collective is thus riskier than another. Why would I want to put my money in a riskier collective when I can put all my money in a less risky one.
   
   Risk is not the only economic consideration you take into account when you invest your money, and why would you invest all of the resources you possess in a single collective? You need to diversify your bonds.

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