Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute “climate deniers”. Effort started by Club of Rome lawyer.
Excerpts from the Guardian article:
A campaign to declare the mass destruction of ecosystems an international crime against peace – alongside genocide and crimes against humanity – is being launched in the UK.
The proposal for the United Nations to accept “ecocide” as a fifth “crime against peace”, which could be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC), is the brainchild of British lawyer-turned-campaigner Polly Higgins.
The radical idea would have a profound effect on industries blamed for widespread damage to the environment like fossil fuels, mining, agriculture, chemicals and forestry.
Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute “climate deniers” who distort science and facts to discourage voters and politicians from taking action to tackle global warming and climate change.
“Ecocide is in essence the very antithesis of life,” says Higgins. “It leads to resource depletion, and where there is escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind. Where such destruction arises out of the actions of mankind, ecocide can be regarded as a crime against peace.”
Higgins, formerly a barrister in London specialising in employment, has already had success at the UN with a Universal Declaration for Planetary Rights, modelled on the human rights declaration. “My starting point was ‘how do we create a duty of care to the planet, a pre-emptive obligation to not harm the planet?'”
After a successful launch at the UN in 2008, the idea has been adopted by the Bolivian government, who will propose a full members’ vote, and Higgins has taken up her campaign for ecocide.
See the Guardian article for the rest
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Polly Higgins, the lawyer behind the idea of ecocide, is on the board of DESERTEC (www.desertec.org). As press releases make clear [quote] “The DESERTEC Foundation is a charitable initiative of the Club of Rome” Polly Higgins can be seen listed as a board member on the press releases of DESERTEC. E.g. here: http://www.desertec.org/fileadmin/downloads/press/press-release_090616_en.pdf
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I’ll be the one singing on my way to the gallows.
Most of us will chuckle at this, but we might not be laughing about it in a few years. Who would have ever believed the US would socialise its health care?
I thought April 1st had already pass us by.
From http://www.climate-resistance.org/2010/04/against-humanity.html
“Ecocide” is defined as
“The extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished.”
Of particular interest is this passage…
“Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute “climate deniers” who distort science and facts to discourage voters and politicians from taking action to tackle global warming and climate change.”
The key premise of the campaign is that,
“extraction [of resources from the planet] leads to ecocide, which leads to resource depletion, and resource depletion leads to conflict.
Thus, “ecocide” is equivalent to genocide.”
The first passage quoted above reveals the truth. What environmentalism objects to is human agency.
It is a twist of logic that has made equivalence of humanity’s ability to transform its own predicament and a crime against humanity.
Humanity, in other words, is a crime against humanity.
“Ecocide” could also be defined as killing in the name of ecology — think DDT.
Anybody see China voting yes?Sometimes you have to be thankful for the Chinese government.They save us from these fools.
Munich Re, Siemens, Desertec want to build huge solar-thermal power plants in the Sahara plus high voltage DC transmission to Europe.
By introducing anti-CO2 legislation and the threat of whatever arbitrary sentence to arbitrary companies or persons – difficult to say how ecocide laws will be used – they might be able to force utilities to buy their product – pretty expensive electricity.
Polly is just an employee doing her job, and given that it’s a filthy job it is probably well paid.
Ordinary crookery.
Lysenkoism.
It has become painfully obvious that the UN is a failure (OK, it’s been obvious for a while now). Much of the UN agenda is counter to the protections guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution so I’m thinking it would be better if the U.S. would simply withdraw and boot the organization from New York. The first time the UN files charges of ecocide on an American person or entity, I say come and get ’em, if you can.
I used to naively think it was in our best interest to participate with the other nations of the world to work for our common good. Now I realize that this type of cooperation is not even on the UN’s radar screen. It is an organization inhabited by thugs with the goal of bringing the U.S. and other western nations down. The thugs are aided and abetted by left-wing do-gooders from the affluent western nations who hate their own countries as much as the thugs.
I’m an optimist and I think there is much the U.S. and other countries can do, outside of the UN organization, to help others. I think it is time to bypass the bloated, corrupt UN and starve it out of existence. Money is power and power corrupts, so cut them off at the knees by closing our checkbooks. I certainly don’t recognize their authority.
Actually, lawyers are an endangered species…Polly, Polly…wakey, wakey…No, she’s dead parrot…etc… Sorry, couldn’t just resist…Well, no more comments needed, or??
A posting from Polly’s blog about Desertec:
http://thelazyenvironmentalist.blogspot.com/2009/07/desertec-industrial-initiative.html
Polly runs the lazy environmentalist, seems to be a shop selling you gadgets and trinkets while telling you that you’re buying a green product.
http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/
She seems to be fighting the ecocide on several fronts…
actually, i hope the UN accepts this.
that would finally be the bridge too far that would cause massive defections from and likely the ultimate dissolution of one of the of the most corrupt and dangerously incompetent organizations in history.
“Universal Declaration for Planetary Rights”?
Why do I keep thinking that this means that Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars should get together and complain about Jupiter and Saturn hogging all the methane?
Perhaps the Moon should ask for an apology for the Late Heavy Bombardment?
And, coming soon to a city near you, the Thought Police.
In short you must obey the party (the Angkar – re The Killing Fields) with all your heart, your mind and body. Today is the day zero, there is no past, only the Ankar. Chilling!!
“morganovich (08:43:41) :
actually, i hope the UN accepts this.
that would finally be the bridge too far […]”
morganovich, it’s a very down-to-earth gambit that large companies do all the time: influence legislation to force competition out of business or increase their cost of operation. NOTHING about it is ethical, moral or anything of the kind, not even political; it’s 100% money driven and it will be used very finely tuned to gradually knuckle-bend competition down, all the while avoiding to scare the chickens (but taking their money).
I don’t follow the logic.
“Ecocide is in essence the very antithesis of life,” says Higgins. “It leads to resource depletion, and where there is escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind…”
So those who would “create” the circumstances in which war might be declared will be guilty, but not necessarily those who actually declare war or prosecute a war?
George Orwell was right.
Here’s the success story of Polly Higgins and her company, The Lazy Environmentalist, brought to you by “everywoman” :
http://www.everywoman.com/YourBusiness/Successstories/?id=313
Hopefully they will have reeducation camps for the “climate deniers” they find guilty, possibly in Siberia since its so balmy there these days.
“The extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished.”
Aren’t windmill installations a good match here?
Who to punish?
However, this is not funny anymore. Ecofascism is what comes to mind.
Read who is applauding such ideas in the comments section.
She will have to charge herself for flying around promoting this nonsense, then she can join everyone on the planet in jail.
Yes, but what are the chances they would apply this to windmill farms and biofuel agriculture? Essentially they would still pick and choose which forms of “ecocide” were politically correct and which weren’t.
So they’ve got the backing of Bolivia – now I’m worried!
Green fascists.
EGO cide.