Environmental pollution and the depletion of natural resources have caused great harm to our Earth and her inhabitants. This website explores if Restorative Justice can play a role in healing environmental harms.
Reconnecting with the Living Earth through Restorative Justice
KOSMOS Newsletter - April 10, 2019
Ecologically conscious lawyers are innovating solutions to counter the exploitation of nature—solutions that also question the outdated economic growth imperative and anthropocentric bias of our legal system. Among these solutions are climate cases that focus on intergenerational justice and planetary stewardship, the movement to criminalize ecosystem destruction—ecocide—and initiatives to acknowledge the rights of nature.
But are species loss, ecosystem destruction, and climate change best addressed with adversarial legal strategies? If we ostracize those directly responsible for large-scale environmental harm, does this not strengthen the separation consciousness that we are trying to rise above? A more peaceful and system-oriented approach towards protecting the rights of nature and future generations is better equipped to contribute to a culture of interbeing. Could Restorative Justice, therefore, play a role in reconnecting us to the living Earth?
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Wed, 10 April