The Midtown Scholar Bookstore and PennFuture are pleased to welcome renowned author Franklin Kury for a live-stream discussion on his new book, The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet: The Peoples’ Right to a Healthy Environment. Kury will be in conversation with PennFuture’s Ezra Thrush. This event will be streamed on Zoom and Facebook Live. Registration is required, though the event is free to attend. Exclusive signed copies of the book are available for purchase.
For each purchase of the book, 10% of the proceeds will be donated to PennFuture, giving you the option to be a member of PennFuture. PennFuture is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization leading the transition to a clean energy economy in Pennsylvania and beyond by protecting our air, water and land, and empowering citizens to build sustainable communities for future generations.
About the Book:
More than 50 years ago, Franklin Kury drafted and championed an Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, which was enacted on Earth Day 1970 and ratified by Pennsylvania’s voters a year later. In the half century since then, climate change has become the overriding threat to the environment of the planet. In this book, Franklin Kury expands upon the story of Article I, Section 27, to demonstrate how its principles can be the basis for addressing climate change in the rest of the world. The story concludes with a call for the federal government’s leadership to seek a national environmental rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a treaty to expand its reach to the international community.
About the Author:
Franklin Kury served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972 and the Pennsylvania Senate from 1972 to 1980. As a state representative, Kury was the author and lead advocate of the legislative proposal that became the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution (Article 1, Section 27) that is the basis of this book. After leaving the legislature, Kury was a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.
