Ecocide Should Be Recognized as a Crime Against Humanity, but We Can’t Wait for The Hague to Judge by Natasha _Lennard , the Intercept September 2019, The image of Darren Woods, CEO of Exxon Mobil, loomed over the climate strike in New York last Friday afternoon. Rendered in cardboard, 15 feet tall and clutching a […]
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
In press with Bioscience Magazine We, scientists, have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any great existential threat. In this paper, we present a suite of graphical vital signs of climate change over the last 40 years. Results show greenhouse gas emissions are still rising, with increasingly damaging effects. With few exceptions, we […]
Against Ecocide: Can we Provide Legal Protection for the Earth and its Inhabitants?
Against Ecocide: Legal Protection for Earth addresses the question of whether we have the institutional tools to address ecocide as a crime. A new article by Femke Wijdekop , August 2016 The current legal regime allows states and corporations to despoil the environment with impunity. This injustice has inspired a new movement of legal experts and […]