Show Notes
The biggest legal gap in history isn't about human rights, but the rights of the Earth itself. In this episode, Shepheard-Walwyn host Jonathan Brown sits down with Jojo Mehta, co-founder of Stop Ecocide International, to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Polly Higgins, the barrister who gave up her career and sold her home to become a lawyer for the planet. Polly believed that ecocide, mass destruction of the natural world, deserved a place alongside genocide and war crimes as an international crime. Polly's vision is now a global legal movement reshaping international law. Jojo reveals how this movement has grown from grassroots activism to UN diplomacy, why some of the world's smallest nations are leading the charge, and how Polly's final book, Dare to Be Great, challenges every one of us to find our unique purpose and use it.
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