Polly Higgins

World-renowned barrister and author POLLY HIGGINS proposed to the United Nations that ecocide be made a crime - to prohibit mass damage and destruction. She was voted one of the World’s Top 10 Visionary Thinkers, No. 35 in Salt Magazine’s Tp 100 Inspiring Women of the World and dubbed The People’s Lawyer. Her story is a journey of facing something enormous and finding the keys and tools to unlock something even greater instead. Calling on leaders to step into their greatness, she realized that greatness begins with the self. A unique story, it is part self-learned, part self-unlearned. To break the cycles of harm playing out in the world, our ecocides, is to break the cycles of harm playing within ourselves. Polly was also the award-winning author of Eradicating Ecocide. She passed away in April 2019 and her legacy is being continued by the Stop Ecocide group who are working at an international level to ratify the ecocide law in 2020 and by the work of Extinction Rebellion.