ecocide

What, exactly, were the processes by which past societies committed ecocide?

Ten countries have made ecocide during peacetime a national crime.

Here, an individual responsible for the activity which has resulted in ecocide can be identified.

However throughout the negotiations, other crimes were considered for inclusion, including ecocide.

Many reasons are put forward for the need for an international crime of ecocide.

In sum, genocide and an ecocide of the greatest magnitude took place.

The album Ecocide was recorded and released in 1993.

In 2012 a concept paper on the Law of Ecocide was sent out to all governments around the world.

If ecocide is committed a range of measures are proposed including restorative justice.

The term ecocide is more recently used to refer to the destructive impact of humanity on its own natural environment.

Ecocide can be irreversible when an ecosystem suffers beyond self healing.

The existing law of war could be used in the interpretation of what constitutes ecocide.

Members of the Sub-Commission were divided on including ecocide as a crime against peace.

In this case, action could be taken against members of governments and judiciaries who are complicit with ecocide.

Oil spillage has a major impact on the ecosystem into which it is released and may constitute ecocide.

A weaker definition of ecocide is that in which an organism destroys ecosystems other than its own.

At the heart of the ecocide issue are practical and moral questions: is human activity destroying the ecological support system necessary for our own survival?

The concept of the crime of ecocide is being considered by the UN.

Equating colonization with genocide and ecocide, the author provides examples of resistance.

An amendment to the Rome Statute is needed to include ecocide as the fifth crime against peace.

Today they would call that ecocide.

Many people fear that ecocide has now come to overshadow nuclear war and emerging diseases as a threat to global civilization.

Ecocide is not currently an international crime, although it is a domestic crime in at least ten countries.

An organism might inflict ecocide directly by killing enough species in an ecosystem to disrupt its structure and function.

We wish to change it by formally naming the crime, to go with all other repugnant behaviours, called ecocide.