Something that has been solidifying my commitment lately was when my environmental law professor dropped: “When it comes to protection status currently, as an animal, plant or insect, you better be an aesthetically pleasing species”
The EU only started protecting earthworms very recently
Jan 31, 2026 19:47If law is ever a field that interests you, environmental law needs a lot of help, especially in Europe, where they are even struggling to recruit the people they need (and it’s for a good cause)
The rule of thumb is to take something you enjoy & just add environmental law to it & there’s your job
I’m not kidding by the way: you have no idea how far environmental law reaches
Anything you can think of will be in touch with environmental law
Hell, I’m working towards the environmental impact of space exploration right now !
Pour les français, le droit de l’environnement est vraiment une très bonne niche dans ce pays car nous sommes très peu a y être formés, avec encore peu de masters en la matière et ils galèrent à recruter parce qu’ils ne comprennent rien aux normes environnementales: il y a un énorme besoin
The fact that we as a species are so careless we are fully willing to allow a species to go extinct because it doesn't "fit the vibe" is fuckin insane to me
It really is, it’s infuriating: every life has a place
The first environmental protections were based solely on the beauty of something, such as when Yosemite became the first national park in the US
It wasn’t to protect it, it was because it was pretty
