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SUMMARY:Revolution Justified
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DESCRIPTION:Mr Roger H. J. Cox\, Paulussen Advocaten NV\nRoger H.J. Cox is
  a partner at the law firm of Paulussen Advocaten in the Netherlands and f
 ounder of the Planet Prosperity Foundation. As a strategic advisor on sust
 ainable development issues and transition processes at both national and i
 nternational level\, Mr. Cox also holds seats on the business advisory cou
 ncil of the US Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute and the advis
 ory council of the Dutch sustainable business association De Groene Zaak. 
 In 2012\, the Dutch Green Building Council selected Mr. Cox as one of the 
 most influential people in sustainable real estate development.\nMr Cox is
  also author of the book Revolution Justified\, concerning peak oil\, clim
 ate change\, the failure of democracy and why the law is our only hope of 
 achieving the much needed energy transition. This book is promoted by inte
 rnational leaders in sustainability as an essential read and has provided 
 the impetus for the Dutch climate proceedings against the Dutch governemen
 t before the court in the Hague in which proceedings Mr Cox is the lead co
 uncil for the 900 claimants. Mr Cox is also setting up similar legal clima
 te proceedings in Belgium and other European countries.\nAbout the book Re
 volution Justified: Military reports warn that impending energy problems w
 ill endanger Western society and threaten to weaken ties between states an
 d their citizens\, undermining the very foundations of democracy and the r
 ule of law. Energy issues will also set the stage for more aggressive geop
 olitics and will substantially destroy the ecosystem services on which soc
 iety is wholly dependent. These are but a few of the impacts that the doub
 le energy problem of climate change and oil decline have in store for us.\
 nAttorney and pragmatic visionary Roger Cox sets out and analyzes these en
 ergy stress tests\, going on to explain why neither the market mechanism n
 or today’s political model are capable of initiating an energy revolutio
 n to solve these issues. This deadlock situation has the potential to brin
 g about the very downfall of Western society\, and will at the very least 
 put Western countries at risk of committing domestic human rights violatio
 ns on a scale nobody had thought to ever see again after World War II. Pre
 cisely this threat of human rights violations puts the judiciary in a posi
 tion to step in and lead Western governments out of the dangerous deadlock
 .
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