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"A rallying cry not only for conservationists and wildlife biologists, but for pediatricians, teachers, psychologists, architects, city planners--everyone who is concerned about the welfare of all species, including human beings. Please read this important book."--Richard Louv, chairman emeritus of the Children & Nature Network and author of LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS and THE NATURE PRINCIPLE"Constitutional protection of natural and human communities may be our best hope for survival."--Bradley M. Campbell, President of the Conservation Law Foundation, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and former Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  "The Green Amendment asks us to imagine a world in which the right to pure water and healthy air exist on par with due process and free speech--and then shows us how to make it so."--Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author of LIVING DOWNSTREAM and RAISING ELIJAH, recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, and co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking"If we were writing our Constitution for the first time today, wise leaders would surely insert protections for our environment."--Bill McKibben, author of RADIO FREE VERMONT". . . you will be inspired by the notion, transformed into a call for a constitutional amendment, that we, the people, have always had more power than we thought." --A. R. Ingraffea, PhD, PE, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University
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About the Author
Maya K. van Rossum is a veteran environmentalist who since 1996 has served as the Delaware Riverkeeper, championing the rights of over 17 million people to a free-flowing, clean, and healthy Delaware River and its tributary streams. In 2013, she was one of the original petitioners in the landmark Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania case. Since 2002, she has served as an adjunct professor and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple’s Beasley School of Law, which she founded. van Rossum lives in Delaware County Pennsylvania with her family.
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Product details
Paperback: 316 pages
Publisher: Disruption Books; None edition (November 14, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1633310213
ISBN-13: 978-1633310216
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
44 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#212,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is a must-read. It is a manifesto for saving our earth. By telling the story of constitutionally-based environmental rights, it offers a transformational opportunity for the environmental movement. It weaves a compelling narrative of where we find ourselves -- with real-life accounts of those standing up against the threats of continued environmental harm -- while offering an inspiring and achievable path forward. Unlike a lot of writing on these topics, it's a pleasure to read and doesn't get bogged down in jargon. Let's hope it's widely read and acted upon.
In the interest of full disclosure, I live in a Delaware River community and we are impacted by a proposed pipeline project that is discussed in this book. I know Maya and interact with her often. While I am unable to be completely objective about Maya herself - she is a force of nature who provides deep and endless energy to the communities she supports and we would be lost without her - as a scientist and science writer I can, in fact, be objective about her book.The book is really well written and allows the reader a fast paced experience as it winds the legal and environmental issues of over development (or stupid development, or illegal development) through the lives of the people who must deal with it. The stories of those people are described factually, and the book is heavily referenced. It is important to say that because the abuses of power and the conflicts of interest endemic in the process of approving infrastructure - especially federally approved interstate fossil fuel infrastructure - are so blatantly corrupt and callously defiant of any illusion we possess as Americans having rights, that it takes dealing with it for awhile to believe that it's true. Consequently, people tend to blow off the kinds of stories Maya offers as exaggerations of a tree-hugging environmental extremist. After dealing with it myself daily for more than 3 years, I can attest that these are not exaggerations, and I no longer possess any illusions.I initially intended to give this book a 4-star rating because of the one big flaw I saw in her hypothesis about the efficacy of a Green Amendment: in my little corner of the world at least, the states without a constitutional amendment protecting the environment (NY and NJ) seem more effective at stopping unnecessary fossil fuel infrastructure than the one with it (PA). Court cases won on the amendment, such as on Act 13 and segmenting, while extremely important, have not prevented the governor nor the PA Department of Environmental Protection from giving carte blanche to industry by completely ignoring their responsibilities to protect the environment under the Clean Water Act. As it relates to enforcement in PA, there doesn't appear to be any regard for the Clean Water Act or for their constitutional amendment. NY, on the other hand, has already defeated pipeline projects on the basis of a strong Department of Environmental Conservation enforcement of its Clean Water Act responsibilities, and NJ is poised to do the same. It has been my belief that a strong state structure for protecting water and land use, as is conferred on the states through their authority to implement the federal Clean Water Act, would trump a state constitutional amendment.However, I have changed my mind recently as news from the federal level becomes much more foreboding. We have been seeing movement in proposed federal energy legislation to take away from the states their rights under the Clean Water Act, and give them to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency that Maya spends significant time detailing in the chapter on pipelines. In a new chilling decision on an extension of the Millenium pipeline in NY, NY rejected the application as it is legally entitled to do under the Clean Water Act, Millenium appealed to FERC on a technicality, and FERC ruled for the pipeline company, declaring in its decision that states should not think they have equal authority to FERC on the Clean Water Act. And so the removing of rights from the states begins. Yes, NY is challenging the decision in court, but FERC issued an approval to begin construction before the case could be heard. States now need additional tools in their armamentarium to defend against this encroachment on their rights to decide on development in their jurisdiction. The Green Amendment is that tool.
This is so much more than a book about conservation. This is a book that offers a rock solid suggestion for how to resolve conservation issues on a long term basis by enacting a federal amendment that says that we consider people first --- our health, our peace of mind, our right to the truth --- when making decisions about how to utilize our land and resources. We have a long way to go and this book offers guidelines for starting at the local and state levels. Pennsylvania wrote an environmental amendment in the 1970s and it worked! Learn about it in this book.You will also learn some things that are very difficult to stomach, like how people lie, cheat, and steal, and get away with a bundle of cash (absent a soul). So many of the people who agreed to having fracking done on their land had no idea and were not told how destructive the chemicals would be or how disruptive the trucks coming and going would be or how little their life and livelihood would mean to the people whose only desire was to extract what they could from the land. There are the people who didn't own the mineral rights for their land, and their peaceful, successful, organic farm is destroyed by the monsters who have the mineral rights and thus the right to desecrate their farm.There are success stories as well, thank God. The watershed that provides water to New York City is a great success story. The process of one community upriver finding out how they affect the downriver folk is another.It's amazing to me how much knowledge and inspiration pours out of this book in only 250 pages of text. Then there are copious endnotes so you can do your own research and a great index so you can find what you're looking for in the book. I can't recommend "The Green Amendment" enough.
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