Abate Publishes ‘Climate Change and the Voiceless’ ABATE ARGUES THAT WE AS HUMANS NEED TO VIEW OURSELVES AS ONE PART OF A LARGER ECOSYSTEM, PLACING MORE RESPONSIBILITY ON OURSELVES TO PROTECT GROUPS SUCH AS THE MARGINALIZED AND THE VOICELESS.
Rechnitz Family/UCI Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy Randall Abate traveled the world on a speaking tour in support of his new book, Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources. The book, published in the fall by Cambridge University Press, explores how the law, through the context of climate change, can evolve to protect the interests of three groups which Abate refers to collectively as “the voiceless.” Abate’s 2019 travels took him to highprofile conferences and universities in Morocco, the U.K., Belgium, Turkey, the Netherlands, Serbia and Spain, among other stops.
talking about animals, or we’re talking about natural resources, they share one common vulnerability, which is they do not have a voice in the legal system the way living, adult humans do,” Abate told the audience while delivering the 2019 Monmouth University Council of Endowed Chairs Lecture. Arguing that a paradigm shift needs to occur so that legal principles begin to reflect an “ecocentric” model, Abate said we as humans need to view ourselves as one part of a larger ecosystem, placing more responsibility on ourselves to protect groups such as the marginalized and the voiceless.
“This characterization of ‘the voiceless’ … whether we’re talking about future generations in the form of children or the unborn, or we’re Professor Randall Abate takes a break from a book talk at Cambridge University.
ADDITIONAL 2019 UCI PUBLICATIONS Visit monmouth.edu/uci to read these and other recent documents Atmospheric Trust Litigation: Foundation for a Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate System? Randall Abate, October 2019 New Jersey Has Been Lucky (So Far) with its Freshwater Algal Blooms. It Probably Won’t Last. Jason Adolf, September 2019 Final Report from the National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA (hosted by Monmouth and Rockefeller universities), January 2019
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