Law and the Humanities in a Time of Climate Change

Abstract

As members of political communities, we are now experiencing how alarming the threats posed by climate change are. Because of our living in the Global North, we thought that ‘wealth was a shield against [its] ravages.’ Consequently, we kept on ‘mortgaging the ecological future of the planet’ and, at the same time, allowed its ‘cruelest impacts’ to affect the less- developed countries. Indeed, global warming goes hand in hand with economic inequalities.