Book review: Wild law
Wild law: A manifesto for Earth justice
Cormac Cullinan / Green Books / Paperback: £12.95 /
ISBN: 978–1–9003–2290–4
The growing tension between the natural environment and voracious economic growth is at the heart of Cormac Cullinan’s thought-provoking book.
This is the second edition and provides further substance to his ideas on how existing political systems and structures need to change to ensure human beings coexist happily with the rest of the Earth’s community without degrading and destroying the planet – living with nature rather than trying to dominate it, as the author puts it in his preface.
The new edition differs from the original, which was published in the aftermath of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, by incorporating a new postscript and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, adopted at a conference in Bolivia in April 2010.
Cullinan describes the application of what he refers to as “Earth jurisprudence” to promote social and environmental justice. Is it feasible in the 21st century? Read the book and draw your own conclusions.