Getting to the wild heart of earth rights: Cormac Cullinan.
This episode of the Green Interview features Cormac Cullinan, a practicing environmental lawyer based in Cape Town, South Africa, the director of a leading environmental law firm and the author of the pioneering book Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice published in 2002. The book calls for what...
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
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2015.
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| Summary: | This episode of the Green Interview features Cormac Cullinan, a practicing environmental lawyer based in Cape Town, South Africa, the director of a leading environmental law firm and the author of the pioneering book Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice published in 2002. The book calls for what Cullinan describes as earth jurisprudence, which places human legal systems within the context of the laws of nature, changing our relationship with the natural world from one of exploitation to a more democratic participation in a community of all life. Cormac Cullinan is a member of the executive committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and played an important role in drafting the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. Cullinan is a former anti-apartheid activist and that's given him an understanding of just how fast and how completely social change can occur when the circumstances are right. Racism was the concept that once supported slavery as well as apartheid and Cullinan firmly believes that human beings will soon realize that the failure of our laws to recognize the right of a river to flow, to prohibit acts that destabilize earth's climate or to impose a duty to respect the intrinsic value on right to exist of all life is as reprehensible as allowing people to be bought and sold. |
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