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.
Welcome to the Third Wave
Fixing photosynthesis, plant respiration in a changing world and rubisco, a protein with a bad attitude.
The nuclear age?
Healthy parent, healthy child
Robots and Emotions
A big picture future
Fuzzy Foundations
Farmers for Climate Action
Connected cousins, genetics, ancestry, e-cigarettes
Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet
Climate Action in Federal Parliament
Economics of the renewable energy revolution with Andrew Blakers
ACT Fossil Emblem
Healthy food, healthy brain
Shun Deng Fam - Political Ecologist ANU
Science For All
Welcome to the Odour Lab. Part 2
Welcome to the Odour Lab. Part 1
Optics and Visuals
Inspiring Science
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It is Free
Museum of the Missing
Strange by Nature Podcast
The Poetry of Science
Sasquatch Chronicles
Hidden Brain