Ecocide is destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action. This is something all the big polluters do. If Ecocide is criminalised i.e. recognised as an international crime then it will be very beneficial for all life forms, environment & biodiversity. It will legally bind all the polluters, its financers, politicians and governments who back such activities to change their ways.
Watch this short video to know why is it so important to make ecocide an international crime!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftYb3G52og
Speaker in this video is Jojo Mehta who co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017, alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court.
She is Chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.
More about speaker: https://www.stopecocide.earth/jojo-mehta-profile
Jojo Mehta
Climate love
