The Fragile Menagerie: Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, and the Law

I. THE HIPPODROME OF THE GODS: RACING AGAINST ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY APOCALYPSE....................................................................... 304 II. ACROSS THE APOCALYPSE ON HORSEBACK: LEGAL RESPONSES TO BIODIVERSITY LOSS .................................................................................... 310 A. OVERKILL ........................................................................................... 310 B. ALIEN INVASIVE SPECIES ..................................................................... 316 C. HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT .................. 321 1. ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY .............................................................. 321 2. PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT..................................................... 325 III. THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: FROM PRIVATE LANDS TO GLOBAL COMMONS .......................................................................................... 329 A. ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT MECHANICS .............................................. 330 1. LISTING ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES....................... 330 2. CRITICAL HABITAT ..................................................................... 333 3. INTERAGENCY CONSULTATION .................................................... 333 B. HABITAT CONSERVATION ON PRIVATE LANDS...................................... 335 C. ΑΡΚΤΟΎΡΟΣ: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE “LAST GREAT WILDERNESS”... 340 IV. THE LAW OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE MITIATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ............................................................................................................................ 347 A. A NEW EPOCH..................................................................................... 347 B. AN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHOS INTENDED TO ENDURE FOR AGEST TO COME…353 C. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ON THE LAST PROMONTORY OF THE CENTURIES................................................................................... 354 1. REVITALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ......................................... 354 2. NEPA AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER ................................... 357 3. PRAGMATIC MODESTY ................................................................ 360 4. FOR NOWADAYS THE WORLD IS LIT BY LIGHTNING ..................... 364