ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the impact of climate change on human rights and, conversely, the contribution of the discourse of human rights to climate change. Climate change has been exacerbated by activities and patterns of behaviour protected by the human rights discourse. The chapter explores the interrelationship between the recognised rights of corporate tricksters and climate change. The interplay between human rights and climate change is complex. It is clear that climate change jeopardises human rights, or at least the human rights currently recognised in international human rights law at this precarious moment in human history. Issues of climate change displacement are linked to the vulnerability of property rights in a time of climate change. Freedom of speech is another fundamental right with an equivocal relationship to climate change. The nonhuman turn in both fiction and law serves as a growing and significant corrective to the all-encompassing humanism and anthropocentrism found within these forms of storytelling.
