Conquest and nature : The ecology of the South African legal order

Abstract

A critical/jurisprudential analysis of the underpinnings of South Africa's legal framework, under the lens of modern agricultural industry, climate change and environmental sustainability. In essence, I want to show how South Africa's history of conquest, colonialism and apartheid have adversely affected the country's legal, social, political, ethical and economic frameworks, rendering our country's responses to and capacity to respond to the problems within agricultural industry and environmental sustainability.as rather meagre/lackluster. My recommendations after explaining such would also be based on various African philosophies which view the planet as one with humanity, and socially and culturally mandate its protection. I believe that this topic would be multidisciplinary/intersectional in nature and alludes much to human rights as such rights are affected by climate change and improper/capitalistic/predatory environmental practices en masse.