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Abstract

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. A notorious story about a small endangered fish that traveled far through the corridors of American government; also a parable about citizen action, a parable perhaps even more useful because it’s true.

Deemed “The Most Extreme Environmental Case Ever”, Zygmunt Plater and a team students in Tennessee used the endangered little “snail darter” fish to help several hundred family farmers and fishermen block a pork-barrel dam that was going to destroy far more—in economic and ecological term—than it ever could produce. A double takeaway: “Good Ecology equals Good Economics” and “The governance of society is too important to leave it up to those who govern us.”

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1-2014_TEDx_5a.pptx
8 Sep 2022
Public
92.3 MB
2014_TEDx_5a.pdf
8 Sep 2022
Public
12.3 MB

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  • Subject
    • Environmental Law

    • Natural Resources Law

    • Water Law

  • Date submitted

    8 September 2022

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