Writer: Samantha Cristol (she/her)
Samantha Cristol is a second year law student at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent three years working in the construction management industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate about environmental justice and building a world where the natural and built environments coexist in healthy and meaningful ways.
The Miami-Dade board of commissioners voted to build a homeless encampment next to a Florida nature preserve in a 3-2 decision. The nature preserve in question? Virginia Key.
On the international stage, climate change has most often been addressed in relation to mitigation, which focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to lessen future impacts. As current climate conditions worsen there is a growing need to focus on climate change adaptation as well.
