
Environmentally our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe & those laws we do have are feebly enforced Every new year is the hottest in human history while forest reef ice tundra & species are disappearing forever It is easy to lose all hope Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever environmental laws need to be enforceable & enforced Step forward a fresh breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers They provide new rules to legislatures see that they are enforced & keep us informed They tackle big business to ensure money flows into cultural change because money is the grammar of business just as science is the grammar of nature At the head of this new legal army stands James Thornton who takes governments to court & wins & his client is the Earth With Client Earth we travel from Poland to Ghana from Alaska to China to see how citizens can use public interest law to protect their planet Foundations & philanthropists support the law group Client Earth because they see plainly & brightly that the law is a force all parties recognize Lawyers who take the Earth as their client are exceptional & inspirational They give us back our hope