Polly Higgins

 

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



Polly is a barrister, author and creator of new laws to protect the Earth. Polly has proposed that Ecocide is the missing 5th Crime Against Peace, to sit alongside genocide as an international crime throughout the world.

LSE public lecture: Eradicating Ecocide

ERADICATING ECOCIDE Winner, The Peoples Book Prize Finalist, Book of the Year Awardhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Eradicating-Ecocide-Governance-Destruction-Planet/dp/0856832758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308771636&sr=8-1shapeimage_1_link_0
Ecocide - v - Living Planet ****** It’s official, jury unanimous: ******* the Athabasca Tar Sands found to be a crime. On the 30th of September 2011, in the UK Supreme Court it took just 50 minutes for the jury to return with two unanimous guilty convictions of ecocide... Read more here http://www.pollyhiggins.com/Polly_Higgins/The_Trial.htmlhttp://www.pollyhiggins.com/Polly_Higgins/The_Trial.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1