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.
Dangers of nuclear power - Tony Irwin
Good cells , bad cells
Tim Hollo - Australian Green Party
Rethinking economics and the limits to growth
What does a bee see?
Heathy environment, healthy humans
The question of money
Australia Day Forum
Neoliberalism laid bare
Fossil economics
Bushfires, Plague, Food
CSI: Crime Soil Investigation
CO2 solutions
Ignobels 2021
The Geological Journey of Food
Michael Jennions - Behavioural ecologist
Taryn Laubenstein - Evolutionary biology and science policy
The joy of Gardening with Camilla
Sustaining our city
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