ABSTRACT
The ‘imagination of justice’ that arises from the process always remains rooted in the social historical world but in a way that posits ‘new determinations’ of old principles. In the legal domain, future justice and youth coalitions, in cooperation with various transnationally relevant legal experts, have sought to test legal commitments to, rights to a safe and healthy future, survival and development against the burden of proof of deepening ecological destruction and a growing range of expert knowledge claims. For defenders of the ecocide campaign, intergenerational justice must be a matter of assignable and enforceable rights. Responsibility for initiating a deeper climate justice framework therefore is a collective one, requiring the cooperation of many publics. The imagination of historical justice is extended to an imagining of worlds under threat in the hope of triggering a greater desire for cooperative action amongst all those broadly committed to a project of ecological rescue and democratic rejuvenation.
