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| Stephen Humphreys. |
Our failure to act to
mitigate climate change will ultimately be seen as a crime against humanity.
Such an argument is loaded with complexities for it is “us”,
that’s you and me, who are perpetrating this crime against humanity and so it
is far from clear how we will ever be able to detach ourselves from the
commission of the crime to view it objectively and prosecute ourselves.
But act we must and prosecute we must, standing aside from
the human experiment just long enough to see clearly that it is our behaviour
that is poised to bring the human journey to a rather grimy conclusion.
Stephen Humphreys has written on The Guardian about how “International law stays silent on the responsibility for climate change."
Humphreys is associate professor of international law at the
London School of Economics. He was formerly research director at the
Geneva-based International Council on Human Rights Policy.
