Chris Packham: Is it time to break the law?
Chris Packham: Is it time to break the law? (first broadcast on Channel 4, 20th September 2023) Perhaps (imo) the most important statement from the whole program was the declaration from Lord Deben (John Gummer) - that we (this country) should be on a war footing when we are now faced with escalating climate, and ecological, breakdown. There is no question that in order to save as much of life on earth, and the current civilisation we find ourselves in, we have to discard some of the restraints that we place on ourselves. The Law, as it stands, was written by humans, for humans. Some of those laws favour the protection of fossil fuels and other activities that actively harm the biosphere. Anthropocentric Laws, versus Natural Laws. Natural Law will win, and kill most of humanity, if we don't stop fulfilling the vision shown in The Age of Stupid* . Natural Law, mainly in the form of thermodynamics, is pushing the temperature of Earth's atmosphere to levels that will be unsurv...