Wild Law fuses politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient
wisdom into a fascinating story. It has been seminal in informing and
inspiring the global movement to recognise rights for Nature - a
movement destined to shape the twenty-first century as significantly as
the human rights movements shaped the twentieth century. This revised
edition includes a new preface, postscript and the Universal Declaration
of the Rights of Mother Earth proclaimed on 22 April 2010.
Wild Law presents a vision of how we could transform the systems that
structure and order industrialised societies to enable us to rediscover
a viable role for our species within the Earth community. It reveals how
the goverance systems of today legitimise and promote the disastrous
expolitation and destruction of Earth. The author explains how to begin
transforming these systems to ensure that the pursuit of human
well-being enhances the beauty, health and diversity of Earth instead of
diminishing it.
Wild Law describes an Earth-centred approach to ordering human
societies (Earth jurisprudence), how to apply it, and it's emerging role
as a common manifesto for promoting social and environmental justice,
the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, animal rights and
welfare, and green spirituality.