Objectives
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Our goals:
- Solve environmental problems and promote sustainable societies through the use of law;
- Incorporate fundamental principles of ecology and justice into international law;
- Strengthen national environmental law systems and support public interest movements around the world;
and - Educate and train public-interest-minded environmental jurists.
The trap was founded on ignorance of our impact on the biogeochemical cycles of Earth, which posed no serious problems when we were fewer and depended on sunlight and wind for our energy. But now the six and a half billion of us, soon perhaps to be eight or nine billion, are living carbon-intensive lives.
We set the trap and it will now take our most creative and sustained efforts to avert catastrophe, and that will require reducing our carbon footprint from 22 tons per person per year to 1–2 tons or even less. But even then, “when this centuries-long climate storm subsides, it will leave behind a new, warmer climate state that will persist for thousands of years. That’s the basic outlook”.
