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.
Nature's Rainbow
Of Failure and Redemption
Our climate future - what hope do we have?
Your Precous Ears
The Much Maligned Fly
The Primal Response
A Spark for Solar
Halting Devastation
Hear No Evil
Einstein, I Choose You!
Rally Driving, Flying, Coral, Torpedoes, Hollywood
The Evolving Fuzzy
Visual Phantoms
Digging into Archaeology
The Problem With Plastic
The wind blows for fossil fuels
Science as a Verb
Artificial Intelligence
Coral Bleaching
Poltical Thinking
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The Poetry of Science
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