{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/6391605541e41a0010b21a9a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"648: Michael Herz, part 1: The United States Constitution, Sustainability, and Pollution","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1670471756028-2e982f89a7752b861599c9498adb3881.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Regular listeners know I'm thinking about applying Abraham's Lincoln solution: a constitutional amendment banning pollution. Here's an earlier episode on it: <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/613-our-next-constitutional-amendment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">613: Our Next Constitutional Amendment</a>.</p><p>It sounds crazy, but we'd be crazy not to consider it and learn from the idea. Even if the United States takes a long time to do it, other countries would likely do it first. It turns out others are organizing for a similar amendment, for the right to a clean environment.</p><p>Michael's expertise in constitutional law and environmental law make him perfect to give context in those two areas.</p><p>One day even the U.S. will show overwhelming support for an amendment making pollution illegal, a modern version of the Thirteenth Amendment. Future generations will lament how we took so long to conceive and pass it. It begins with conversations like this one.</p><ul><li>Michael's <a href=\"https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/michael-eric-herz\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Home Page</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}