David R. Boyd - The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
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David Boyd delivers an inspiring antidote to environmental despair, demonstrating that we are capable of remarkable achievements when we act together. David Suzuki, award-winning scientist, environmentalist, and broadcaster
A surprising, uplifting, and inspiring book. Boyd has assembled a dazzling array of success stories guaranteed to brighten your outlook about the future of this beautiful blue-green planet. Maude Barlow, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and author of Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canadas Water Crisis
Is there hope for the future? Yes, as David Boyd brilliantly demonstrates, because of the energy and commitment of people who know the problems and take action to solve them. And because of the power of the human brain for good when it is in harmony with the human heart. Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Institute of Peace
Far from intimidating, his vision is electrifying and inspiring... This solidly researched and informative book is also a pleasure to read, especially in a world where bad news often drowns out the good. Publishers Weekly
Boyd, one of the real leaders of the Canadian environmental movement, provides an uplifting view of our collective accomplishments and the path forward. Tom Heintzman, co-founder of Bullfrog Power
Boyd has a remarkable ability to educate and inspire the reader on the critical environmental issues of our timewhile at the same time creating a page-turner of a book. Pick this up, read it, and lend it to a friend! Paul Richardson, CEO of Renewal Funds
In The Optimistic Environmentalist, Boyd inspires hopefulness, particularly for young people. BC BookWorld
For anyone who is starting to feel beaten down and defeated by the magnitude of our planets green problems, this book definitely provides a much-needed fillip. Green Spirit
Boyd offers hope and inspiration with The Optimistic Environmentalist, outlining progress that has been and is being made on the environmental front. David Suzuki Foundation
The Optimistic Environmentalist is a breath of fresh air... an accessible book that is interesting, well researched, and always hopeful. Vancouver Sun
Nowhere will you find a clearer explanation of the extraordinary growth of renewable energy and its implications for addressing climate change. TheGeorgia Straight
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future is a book with an abundance of hope. Author David Boyds enthusiasm is palpable. National Observer
As the title suggests, [it] is a paean to the amazing progress we have made on the environment globally and the possibility of solving our major environmental problems, even the most difficult ones such as climate change, in our lifetimes. Literary Review of Canada
A timely and important book. Australian Book Review
David Boyd has given us all a great gifta book to lift our spirits. As story after story is recounted by one of Canadas leading environmental lawyers, we catch some of his contagious enthusiasm. We must all be optimistic environmentalists. Elizabeth May, Canadas first Green Party Member of Parliament
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future (2015)
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies (2015)
The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canadas Constitution (2012)
The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment (2011)
Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards (2010)
David Suzukis Green Guide (with David Suzuki, 2008)
Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy (2003)
For Meredith, Margot, Neko, and the Southern Resident Killer Whales
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universea part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the resta kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein , 1950 letter
Throughout legal history, each successive extension of rights to some new entity has been, theretofore, a bit unthinkable.
Professor Christopher Stone , Should Trees Have Standing?
As the crickets soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as are they
to the rocks and the hills.
GARY SNYDER , Theyre Listening
Not surprisingly, this book about the rights of nature is inspired by my love of the natural world. Its a passion that was ignited when I was a kid roaming the Rocky Mountains, and I still fan the flames by sharing the wonders of Canadas West Coast with my daughter, Meredith, and my partner, Margot.
In 2000, I went on a sailing trip in British Columbias Great Bear Rainforest with friends working for the Raincoast Conservation Society. One morning, at the crack of dawn, Captain Brian Falconer spotted a pod of killer whales. Soon we were all on deck, watching dorsal fins emerge from the sea and listening to orcas explosive exhalations break the morning silence. Brian tossed an underwater microphone over the side, set up a battery-powered speaker, and we were suddenly eavesdropping on cetacean conversations. We could distinguish different voices, some deep and booming, some squeaky and almost soprano. It was both alien and familiar. As the whales communicated with each other, tears streamed down our faces. We were awed and privileged to hear the whales conversations, intimately connected for this moment to these remarkable and complex, social, intelligent animals.
In 2004, on the evening before Margot and I were married on Pender Island (in the Salish Sea between Victoria and Vancouver), at least fifty killer whales passed by our house, interrupting their regular circuit to put on an amazing display. Orcas leapt from the sea, spy-hopped, tail-slapped, and generally carried on as though they were having a blast. Maybe they were hunting salmon. Maybe they were celebrating something. Maybe they were playing a game or engaging in some ritual we dont have the slightest inkling about. In any event, it was spectacular, and our visiting friends and relatives were astounded.
Since then, we have crossed paths with pods of orcas on many occasions as we kayaked around our island home. These are the Southern Resident killer whales who spend most of their time in the waters surrounding Americas San Juan Islands and Canadas Southern Gulf Islands. It can be unnerving, to put it mildly, to see a dorsal fin almost two metres tall slicing through the water toward you in Jaws-like fashion as you sit in a plastic kayak. Your vessel suddenly seems kind of flimsy. Once I was paddling into a strong headwind, unaware that orcas were approaching from behind. I nearly lost control of my paddle and my bladder when a large male surfaced right in front of me, so close that I could see individual beads of water rolling off his massive back. An adult orca can be nine metres long and weigh more than 5,000 kilogramsabstract numbers until theyre suddenly within reach.
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