In Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law, authors Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels probe environmental legal history to understand the law’s troubled relationship to environmental degradation and protection, while uncovering the legal change that is needed to address the most pressing environmental challenges of our era, such as climate change.
Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.
Throughout the past 150 years, the Peel underwent drastic changes due to drainage projects, turf-cutting, and animal farming. The new materialities these uses produced can make one almost forget that this used to be a peatland. However, Jeroen, an ornithologist, remarked upon the black waters surrounding grassland areas in the Peel. He argued that in these nutrient poor pools, the peatland was “peeking through” the fabric of the present-day landscape. The multiple pasts of the Peel were still present in the landscape’s materialities.
To flesh out the labor between humans and animals, I sometimes find myself struggling to write between the “real” and “representational” interactions I experience on farms and see on paper in the archive.
Why do we tell those eerie stories, the ones we share at social events? Ghost stories often reveal more about a community’s concerns at a specific point in time. One such example can be found in suburban Melbourne, Australia.
Now that I’m pursuing a doctoral degree in the highly interdisciplinary field of environmental history, I have come to embrace new research methods.
