Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Jakarta is consistently near the top end of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution. Indonesia has the third largest rainforest after Brazil and Congo. Carbon emissions from land use change (mostly logging) are comparable to Brazil’s, though Brazil gets a lot more publicity.

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Paris Agreement Sea Level Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions 242

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Deforestation Carbon Emissions 145

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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2020 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 40