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Polly Higgins: A New Universal Law to Protect Earth

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Partner:: RSA
Location:: The RSA
London, England
Event Date:: 05.16.12
Speaker:: Polly Higgins
Tags:: climate deniers; climate change; climate science; earth; law; international law; sustainable; ecocide

Summary: Polly Higgins is a barrister with a mission. She visits the RSA to set out a route-map for changing the minds of CEO's and business by the creation of a new law for the Earth.

She argues that in fact Earth is all of our business and now more than ever we can emerge into a new paradigm where people and planet are put first.

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Polly Higgins

Polly Higgins is a lawyer who has dedicated her life to one client - the Earth.

Polly Higgins was born in 1968 and spent her childhood in the west of Scotland, in Stirlingshire and the Highlands. During her time as a student she met the Austrian artist and ecologist Hundertwasser who believed nature to be a community of living beings. This was to be the beginning of her examination of her world in a different context from that which viewed the world as a thing, to be traded and sold.

Her years as a barrister in London courts, where she represented both individuals and corporations on discrimination cases and corporate law, led her to the conclusion that the Earth was in need of a good lawyer. The planet was also being treated unfairly and the tools of her trade were not adequate. Quite simply, the laws to protect the interests of the Earth do not exist.