Polly Higgins – Ecocide: The Earth needs a Lawyer

It should come as no surprise that Polly Higgins presents in such an eloquent, passionate and engaging manner. Pursuing her instinct to stand up to injustice, Polly trained as a lawyer and practiced for some years “solving other people’s problems”. Then at the end of a long case she describes looking out the window at the Court of Appeal and thinking “The earth is being injured and harmed and nothing is being done about it” and “The earth is inRead more