Currently there is no law to prosecute those who are destroying the planet. Instead, climate campaigners do not have the support of the judiciary in preventing the corporate ecocide that is daily occurring under our very noses. Ecocide is permitted by the government and, by dint of the global reach of modern-day transnational business, every government in the world. Corporate ecocide has now reached a point where we stand on the brink of collapse of our ecosystems, triggering the death of many millions in the face of human-aggravated cataclysmic tragedies. The failure rests with our governments who are unwilling to intervene to make the destruction of our world a crime. Our police are disempowered and our justice system is unable to protect our greater interests when faced with the superior silent right of corporations to cause injury to persons and planet.
Source:
Polly Higgins in the Guardian, 5 January 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2011/jan/05/ecocide-law…
Polly Higgins is a barrister, international environmental lawyer and author of Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of our Planet, published by Shepherd-Walwyn.
Ecocide, the 5th Crime Against Peace: Polly Higgins at TEDxExeter Video (19 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/embed/8EuxYzQ65H4
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