This talk by Julian Caldecott was on Lost Species Day and St Andrew’s Day/Là Naomh Anndrais at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI), and was organised by the Edinburgh Environment and Development Network (EEDN).
About the talk. Almost every community in Scotland has people actively restoring peace with nature or wanting to, and this puts Scotland in the vanguard of a global Zeitgeist shift to restore peace with nature. Ecocide laws and constitutional protections for nature are urgently needed to accelerate and consolidate this shift in values and attitudes. Scotland has the opportunity to be a global thought-leader in this process. The video of the talk is now available here. But we should meanwhile be aware that planetary boundaries have already been violated and Earth Systems are approaching their tipping points, so time is now short in which to build a viable future for humanity and life on Earth. The six broken Earth System Boundaries are highlighted in this diagram from the Stockholm Resilience Centre:
