The legal system offers powerful tools to limit environmental destruction, with some excellent examples listed in this Guardian story.
And yet there is much more that can be done. Nuclear weapons remain a dire threat while climate change marches on, largely unchecked by the inadequate responses thrown at it.
Some countries such as Australia do not have a constitutional bill of rights, depriving citizens of a key platform. The alternative is a patchwork of legislation that makes the job harder.
In this interview we speak to the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Interview by Rod as part of the series with authors in our book Sustainability and the New Economics.
Tectonic movements and historic biogeography - Octavio Jimenez Robles
They knew but they did it anyway
Forest Bathing
The energy transition
Community and the global challenge
8 Billion and counting
States of denial. A tribute to Dr Haydn Washington.
Fail / resubmit. Scoring the environment Australian
How many Australians?
Forever growth
Diet and rheumatoid arthritis
Geodesy: A guide for epic journeys
The case for steady state
Back from the dead
Geoscience Saving the World
National Science Week 2022
Climate change and hope vs despair
Banning Nuclear Weapons - Tilman Ruff
Science and comics with Stuart McMillen
Archaeology in PNG - Ben Shaw
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Museum of the Missing
Strange by Nature Podcast
The Poetry of Science
Sasquatch Chronicles
Hidden Brain