Genocide, Infanticide, Pesticide! But what is ECOCIDE? Ecocide is the extensive destruction, damage or loss of ecosystems. Pretty much what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now. Polly Higgins, a visionary planetary rights lawyer, wants to add Ecocide to the list of four international laws that we can charge people or organizations with. The other four are: Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and Crimes of Aggression. After the Second World War, Raphael Lemkin travelled the world asking for the term Genocide to be recognised in Law. He succeeded within four years. Polly is now taken up the same task with the term Ecocide. She wants to find a way to have the illegal loggers of the rain forests or the oil companies in Athabaska or BP in the Gulf of Mexico brought to justice, and have them pay to repair the damage they have wrought. (www.mostpolluted.org makes interesting reading...) PositiveTV supports Polly Higgins wholeheartedly. You should too....by starting to use the word ECOCIDE! See www.treeshaverightstoo.com which is Polly's website
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