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THE BOOK

With the fast-paced readability of a legal thriller, Revolution Justified is a
non-fiction work that leaves no room for reassuring doubt or denial about the
grave dangers of runaway climate change and the perpetual failure of politics to
protect us from it. The book explains the judiciary may yet rescue the climate
and break through the status quo in the fossil fuel dominated energy world.
Revolution Justified is a piercing indictment with national governments as the
accused. In 2015 the author’s analyses and argumentation changed the legal
landscape and led to the first ever court ruling ordering a nation state (The
Netherlands) to actively fight climate change.

Revolution Justified

Military reports warn that impending energy problems will endanger Western
society and threaten to weaken ties between states and their citizens,
undermining the very foundations of democracy and the rule of law. Energy issues
will also set the stage for more aggressive geopolitics and will substantially
destroy the ecosystem services on which society is wholly dependent. These are
but a few of the impacts that the double energy problem of climate change and
oil decline have in store for us.

In this illuminating book, attorney and pragmatic visionary Roger Cox sets out
and analyzes these energy stress tests, going on to explain why neither the
market mechanism nor today’s political model are capable of initiating an energy
revolution to solve these issues. This deadlock situation has the potential to
bring about the very downfall of Western society, as this book explains, and
will at the very least put Western countries at risk of committing domestic
human rights violations on a scale nobody had thought to ever see again after
World War II.

Precisely this threat of human rights violations puts the judiciary in a
position to step in and lead Western governments out of the dangerous deadlock.
Drawing and expanding on examples and cases from the US, the UK, the
Netherlands, Europe and the European Union, this book demonstrates that the
West’s legal systems already contain all the elements needed to achieve an
energy revolution faster and more effectively then any other alternative.

Revolution Justified includes forewords by William McDonough co-author of the
bestseller Cradle to Cradle – Remaking the Way We Make Things and Wubbo Ockels
first Dutch astronaut on the 1985 US Space Shuttle Challenger and James Hansen
“The world’s pre-eminent climate scientist” (Guardian)

Price € 24,95 (e-book €17,95)
ISBN 978-90-817975-1-1
Soft cover, Cradle to cradle optimised printing
328 pages 

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Roger Cox at the University of Oslo




CLIMATE CASE

Revolution Justified provided the impetus for Mr. Cox’s successful climate
proceedings in Urgenda v. the Dutch State.

Dutch climate case ›

The book also initiated the pending climate proceedings against the Belgian
federal and regional governments.

Belgian climate case ›

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FOREWORD BY WUBBO OCKELS

As professor of Sustainable Development at the Delft University of Technology
and the University of Groningen, I recently had the privilege to also give a
lecture course at the University of Amsterdam.

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