Kerns, Thomas A.
자료유형 | 단행본 |
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개인저자 | Kerns, Thomas A., 1942-, editor. Moore, Kathleen Dean, editor. |
서명/저자사항 | Bearing witness:the human rights case against fracking and climate change :Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, editors. |
발행사항 | 2021. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xxiii, 392 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Bearing witness. Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2021, 0870710729 |
ISBN | 9780870710735 0870710737 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-390) and index. |
내용주기 | How fracking violates human rights -- How climate change violates human rights -- How fracking and climate change violate the rights of nature -- Remedies -- The advisory opinion (excerpts) -- Coda : A call to witness. |
요약 | "Fracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in the US also directly harm the health and livelihoods of people in front-line communities, who are disproportionately poor and people of color. Impacted citizens have for years protested that their rights have been ignored. On May 14, 2018, a respected international human-rights court, the Rome-based Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, began a week-long hearing on the impacts of fracking and climate change on human and Earth rights. In its advisory opinion, the Tribunal ruled that fracking systematically violates substantive and procedural human rights; that governments are complicit in the rights violations; and that to protect human rights and the climate, the practice of fracking should be banned. The case makes history. It revokes the social license of extreme-extraction industries by connecting environmental destruction to human-rights violations. It affirms that climate change, and the extraction techniques that fuel it, directly violate deeply and broadly accepted moral norms encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Bearing Witness maps a promising new direction in the ongoing struggle to protect the planet from climate chaos. It tells the story of this landmark case through carefully curated court materials, including searing eye-witness testimony, groundbreaking legal testimony, and the Tribunal's advisory opinion. Essays by leading climate writers such as Winona LaDuke, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bill McKibben, and Sandra Steingraber and legal experts such as John Knox and Mary Wood give context to the controversy. Framing essays by the editors, experts on climate ethics and human rights, demonstrate that a human-rights focus is a powerful, transformative new tool to address the climate crisis"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
일반주제명 | Environmental law. Human rights. Climatic changes -- Law and legislation. Hydraulic fracturing -- Law and legislation. Climatic changes -- Law and legislation. Environmental law. Human rights. Hydraulic fracturing -- Law and legislation. |
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