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
And the first lawsuit, the Chinese. Next the Indians … I bet this won’t last.
A very interesting related psyop described here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304364904575166581279549318.html?mod=WSJ_business_LeftSecondHighlights
Behaviour modification through the dummy box, NBC + GE.
surely pollys webadress is incorrect, shouldn’t it be thecrazyenviromentalist?
“My starting point was ‘how do we create a duty of care to the planet, a pre-emptive obligation to not harm the planet?’”
Pre-emptive and obligation are the key words.
The obligation is to the new Religion of Gaia.
Pre-emptive means to strike at all who oppose the belief system.
The law is intended to sanction the elimination of opposition & seizure of wealth.
One may choose to do business with whom one is comfortable doing business with, but if one wishes to do business by destroying the opposition, understand that the opposition may choose to oblige you by getting you first.
Half of the world powers do not agree with the new Religion of Gaia.
Has the lawyer bothered to check the balance of power sheet lately?
While the new law might be busy purging (and weakening) the West, the other part of the world may decide to start siezing territory .
That’s a mighty dangerous move, this pre-emptive internal strike.
I would give the odds of external forces moving on the newfound opportunity as better than even. The world has not changed all that much in the last 2000 years.
I’m not laughing. Eco Zealotry appears to be intensifying. Perhaps just an artifact of a complicit presidency, but very worrisome nonetheless. This fanaticism won’t disappear, even in the face of direct evidence to the contrary. What is needed is for an American President to call out Al Gore et al, and literally crush the CAGW argument.
actually scrub that last comment, they’re all a bit crazy thesesdays.
Caleb (11:12:25) :
It is going to take a mustering of great forbearance on my part to avoid being tricked into a war-like response,
My forbearance is extinct and I can’t find the wherewithall.
In the County of Kent many years ago, we had a saying; “As silly as a box of high hats”. Never did know where it came from, but it’s so daft, it’s the only thing that seems to fit this stupidity.
Some of our Greenies really should get out a bit more.
The fact that such errant nonsense is even considered, is truly alarming!
I’ve just used Desertec’s contact page…
http://www.desertec.org/en/foundation/contact/
…to ask if the following is company policy:
“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.”
Nothing to do with them, I know, but it may ruffle a few feathers once they realize they’re being splashed with paint from an eco-freak’s brush. Good or bad for business? I don’t know that either, but I’m sure someone at Desertec will.
I just added to my collection of “automatic weapons” this last weekend.
It’s a beauty!
People ask, “why do you enjoy this hobby so much”. I simply say, “Anyone can cut down a tree. But it takes a REAL “ecocide bomber” to SHOOT one down.”
The eco-loons just keep getting loonier, and frankly, more dangerous to both humanity and the environment. They essentially want to destroy wealth, which will lower standards of living, threatening the poor especially with resulting higher mortality rates, particularly children. If anyone needs to be dragged before an international court, it is they. Polly herself should probably do about 5 to 10, for her part.
well theyll really get ‘consensus’ this time
If hounding people and ruining their careers and calling them deniers instead of scientists and mass AL Gore propaganda fear-mongering isnt enough to announce consensus.
Just send in the men with guns.
What is it with these people and all the gloom and doom?
They could screw up a sunny day. We should move all of
them to an island that we call “I hate myself island”.
Polly is getting so scary that I think that I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Only the english. Another middle class woman who wants for nothing, has never wanted for anything,talking rubbish.More money for the lawyers, keep the poor poor.
You never hear poor people calling for less development.
I would like to point out that we are not all this crazy!
uk steve
Britain appears to have very low standards to be admitted for the practice of law. I would suggest prosecuting this twit and her ilk for attempted crimes against humanity. Well past time for the UN and their corruptocrats to go. If the US and Japan stopping giving them money the UN wouldn’t last long. I wouldn’t wish them on Haiti — those people have suffered enough.
In the UK, this type is often referred to as being a ‘champagne socialist’. Tony Blair’s lawyer wife Cherie – possibly the most reviled woman in the country – is one of them.
Protected from having to face the realities of the real world by their wealth and legal ability, their goofy ideas – if enacted – would cause mayhem. As a typical proponent of political correctness, she and her ilk deserve our utter contempt.
Good to see she is supported by Bolivia’s Evo Morales, a socialist autocrat cast in the mould of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
As someone said earlier, it is a sad day when we have to rely on the Chinese government for sanity at the international level, as we can no longer rely on western leaders to do the sensible thing regarding climate.
It seems to me that “ecocide” is going to be very difficult to define in the complex of soiological/economic/environmental systems and finding those responsible even harder. For example: Is an African farmer cutting down trees to increase his acreage more of an ecoterrorist than some high carbon lawyers I can think of?
I would suggest that there is a great and just leveller here: that would be to define ecoterrorists (the perpetrators of “ecocide”) as those with incomes more than half that of Polly Higgins.
JM
‘Fossil fuels, mining, agriculture, chemicals and forestry’. Rather generous of her to exclude animal husbandry. At least we can catch fish, eat meat and wear skins, but only hunt them with bone tools and eat them raw in a natural unheated cave.
DirkH (10:36:50) :
“No no, you have it wrong. In response to the London attacks she decided to make the world a better place by going into eco-retail!
After that business faltered, she decided in 2008 to save the planet by becoming a Desertec mouthpiece (and promoting funny law initiatives).”
OH NO – her business failed?!?
Where am I gonna go now to get my “eco certified wool mobile phone holder”… or my “organic looking eco mats”… or most importantly, my “handmade Cartapesta Roses” (or, eerrrr… clumps of grey rags)?
Without Polly’s high-quality merchandise, the world will surely end!
http://www.laluminata.co.uk/magazine/2008/05/the-lazy-environmentalist/
… and following on from my last comment perhaps “carbon-capping” might be the appropriate punishment…
JM
First of all, what wars have been caused by resource depletion? Many countries have precious little in the way of natural resources, yet have never had need to start a war. The premise of ‘ecocide’ as a crime against peace is unsupportable.
Secondly, all life consumes ‘resources’ to the best of its ability. Humans are the only life form that actually considers other species when it consumes. All life changes its environment. Life can not exist unless it takes a ‘resource’ from the environment and gives off something different to the environment. In essence, all life destroys (changes) its environment. This is not a sin. It is essential for life to exist.
There is nothing in nature that objectively determines the amount of a resource each species can consume and what it must or must not give off. Each life form ‘lives’ as much as it possibly can.
Today’s environmentalists are basically arguing that nature’s way of doing things is wrong. They argue that consuming and polluting is a crime against the planet. In essence, they are arguing that ‘life’ is a crime against the planet. Of course, they claim that it is only human life that is ‘destroying’ the environment, but that is irrational. All life does the exact same thing, to one degree or another.
The bottom line is that they have no logical foundation for their argument. It is completely subjective, with the ultimate goal of subjecting all creation to their whims. It is frightening!
I never knew this organisation existed, but it gives flavour of our Polly.
http://www.haldane.org/
Eco-killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?
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“Peter S (12:35:56) :
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Without Polly’s high-quality merchandise, the world will surely end!
http://www.laluminata.co.uk/magazine/2008/05/the-lazy-environmentalist/
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Wonderful that you found something. And she’s a board member of the mighty mighty DESERTEC?
Where. do. they. get. those. people? Bruahahaha!