Update 15. 4. 2013: This motion to end ecocide was presented by Cathy Fitzgerald and unanimously adopted by the Green Party of Ireland and Northern Ireland at the 2013 Green Party annual Convention in Galway on 13 April, 2013.
My thanks to all who supported this. Please do not forget to sign and share the ecocide petitions with all you know.
“How can we move from a place of dependency to a place of interdependency? How can we create a world of peace?”
Polly Higgins, ‘lawyer for the Earth’ at TEDxWhitechapel, founder of Eradicating Ecocide campaign, Feb. 2013
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“The environmental movement is a failure.
Whether its climate change or the health of our oceans, air, and soil, the planet is worse off now than it was 40 years ago, and rapidly declining. Yet, corporations have more rights than our communities or ecosystems and are doing just fine.
This is how we fix the situation.”
Thomas Linzey, lawyer, founder of US Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund organisation
This weekend I will be presenting a motion at the 2013 Irish National Green Party convention on ecocide; the post below explains why I’m trying to get the term ‘ecocide’ into the Irish political and public domains. If you are interested in measures against fracking and other environmental destruction, a law of ecocide and nature-based rights are developing in response. Please feel free to share this post.
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Could an ecocide law prevent environmental destruction?
One of the key concepts and terms in my PhD work ‘Seeing and Tending the Forest: beyond ecocide toward deep sustainability‘ is – ‘ecocide’. [click to continue…]
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