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As humanity pursues a course toward what is fast becoming an inevitable planetary catastrophe, governments and nation-states across the world attempt to ratify within domestic law environmentally conscious initiatives in the hopes that the due processes and efficacy of legal systems might lead to some form of significant environmental change, thereby beginning the process of steering humanity away from the precipice of disaster. These looming interrelated environmental disasters include but are not limited to climate change, food scarcity, deforestation, and the pollution of critical water and air sources. At a glance, prioritizing the needs of a nation’s environment through the implementation of domestic laws provides both a logical and promising start, however, eliminating adverse environmental phenomena on a scale needed to subvert the level of predicted environmental collapse involves more than convoluted legal engagement, and what is oftentimes confused enforcement.
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Louisson, C. (2022). Dirty Legislation for Dirty Work. In: Gacek, J., Jochelson, R. (eds) Green Criminology and the Law. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82412-9_9
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