Can blending Indigenous, Western laws create a better future?

According to the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, the world is “on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.” It is not only the hell of human lives and species lost amid climate chaos, but also the hell of mental ill-health from what world health expert Dr Lynne Friedli has described as “economic growth at the cost of societal recession”: in too many situations, we are putting financial gain ahead of communities and nature.