Things I learned from a very small fish | Zygmunt Plater | TEDxBeaconStreet

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.”

Zygmunt Plater is seasoned teacher of environmental protection law and property law currently at Boston College Law School. He is not stranger to controversial debates, having chaired Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill Commission’s Legal Research Task Force; consulting on multiple environmental cases–including Woburn toxics; BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill Commission; Lake Biwa chemical pollution, Japan; whale entanglements; strip mining regulation; predatory condemnations.

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