I have just written a report for the Council on Foreign
Relations on climate change and national security which is a
little different than the others in that it focuses on what
needs to be done, if you take the problem
to be a real one.
The state's complex network of canals and reservoirs could be retooled
to provide water
to farmers when they
need it, instead of on a set schedule that may have
little relation to weather patterns or crop development.
It also showed me very clearly that I
needed to move because my current environment at the time bore
little relation to my ideal, but now I could understand precisely why I felt unsettled.»
FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child
to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child
to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate
to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is
little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want
to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence
to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility
to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is
to have sole parental responsibility and the child is
to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted
to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able
to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate
to his
needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely
to lead
to the institution of further proceedings in
relation to the child — Where the child is
to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained
to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.