{"id":76653,"date":"2020-11-09T20:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=76653"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:02:12","slug":"ecocide-should-killing-nature-be-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/ecocide-should-killing-nature-be-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecocide: Should Killing Nature Be a Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong>From the Pope to Greta Thunberg, there are growing calls for the crime of \u201cecocide\u201d to be recognised in international criminal law \u2013 but could such a law ever work?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">In December 2019, at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Vanuatu\u2019s ambassador to the European Union made a radical suggestion: make the destruction of the environment a crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Vanuatu is a small island state in the South Pacific, a nation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38415796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severely threatened by rising sea levels<\/a>. Climate change is an imminent and existential crisis in the country, yet the actions that have caused rising temperatures \u2013 such as burning fossil fuels \u2013 have almost entirely taken place elsewhere, to serve other nations, with the blessing of state governments.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Small island states like Vanuatu have long tried to persuade large powerful nations to voluntarily reduce their emissions, but change has been slow \u2013 so ambassador John Licht suggested that it might be time to change the law itself. An amendment to a treaty known as the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court, could criminalise acts that amount to ecocide, he said, arguing \u201cthis radical idea merits serious discussion\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">In December 2019, at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Vanuatu\u2019s ambassador to the European Union made a radical suggestion: make the destruction of the environment a crime.&nbsp;Vanuatu is a small island state in the South Pacific, a nation&nbsp;severely threatened by rising sea levels.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":76654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ecocide: Should Killing Nature Be a Crime? 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