Caring for Country and Rights of Nature in Australia: A Conversation between Earth Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Law and Ethics

The global ecological crisis is now well documented. ¹ Throughout the twentieth century, we have seen unprecedented deforestation, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution and the escalating disruption of entire components of the Earth System, such as anthropogenic climate change. Human impacts on the planet have become so significant that it was proposed in 2000 that we have moved into a new geological epoch – the ‘Anthropocene’.²