Greens Shirts Create The Crime Of Ecocide
THE Green Shirts are coming. And they have a new crime that you are guiilty of. It’s called “ecocide”.
Among the ideas currently gaining currency is adding a crime of ecocide to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). If this idea is accepted, ecocide would join war crimes, aggression, crimes against humanity and genocide as a fifth crime against peace.
The rationale behind the campaign for a crime of ecocide is similar to that of other ecological legal initiatives; namely, that addressing environmental imperatives requires a seismic shift in attitudes, practices and culture, in both the corporate and political spheres. Catastrophes such as Deepwater Horizon highlight the failure of existing mechanisms to ensure that the commercial world’s financial and economic prowess is matched by a duty of care for the planet on which it operates, and the rights of both its current inhabitants and those yet to come.
Bloody hell…
Spotter: Bishop Hill
Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
