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This paper seeks to demonstrate that crises – which should not be conflated with the “events” that signal them – call for two different kinds of legal intervention. As a system of institutions and norms, the law blends “events” into the textual and regulatory flow that makes up society. As an ever-evolving language, the law exposes the crises by providing opponents to the established order with the words necessary to enable them to express their minority narratives in the legal repertoire. Within that perspective, the text examines the way in which lawyers can convey, up to the borders of the legal system, the justice claim underpinning the “postgrowth narrative” based on the right, for each living creature, present or yet to come, to live a life that is genuinely worthwhile.