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.
Talking Carona Virus with ANU epidemiologist Stephanie Davis
The future of food
100% by 2020
Lennart Bach - side effects of negative emission technology
Bushfires and climate science
Food or War
Burning Time
Bushfires - the new normal?
Christmas Fuzzy
Paleoclimate science and it's communication
A question of hope
Peak Oil
Robot Hand
Looking back at our environment future
I can dance
How many people?
Making sense of nutrition
7.5 Billion and Counting
National Science Week 2019
This was the news of Apollo 11
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