Burning with the need for action - What lawyers can do to help with climate change

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Burning with the need for action Burning with the need for action - What lawyers can do to help with climate change 08/03/2021 | 5 MINS Jessica Henderson explains to our younger audience how lawyers can make a contribution to fighting the effects of climate change. When I was a kid, we were taught that you could defend your home from fire. The teachers told us how to do it. Cover your mouth with a wet scarf. Fill all the bowls you can find with water. Put plugs in the sinks and fill them up. Block the gutters and use a hose to get water all around the roof of the house. Then fight every spark that comes near you. For most of my life thatΓÇÖs been the lesson that I was taught. You can fight a bush fire and stop it from burning down your house. Then at the start of 2020 there were fires that were so big and scary that no-one could fight them. Even the expert firemen with all their equipment were helpless. It seemed like nothing was going to stop those fires. ΓÇ£This is climate change. Everything is so dry that it burns in a way that c

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Burning with the need for action Burning with the need for action - What lawyers can do to help with climate change 08/03/2021 | 5 MINS Jessica Henderson explains to our younger audience how lawyers can make a contribution to fighting the effects of climate change.

When I was a kid, we were taught that you could defend your home from fire.

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