Do you think ECOCIDE should be part of the Democratic platform? POLL:

[peoli]

Check this out:

There is a citizens initiative in Europe to make Ecocide a punishable crime:
http://www.endecocide.eu/?lang=en

Great article by The Guardian about Ecocide:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/vivienne-westwood-law-ecocide-european

"That ecocide – the destruction of ecosystems – is even a concept bespeaks a momentous change in industrial civilisation's relationship to the planet. To kill something, like Earth, presupposes that it is even alive in the first place. Today we are beginning to see the planet and all its subsystems as beings deserving of life, and no longer mere resource piles and waste dumps. As the realisation grows that we are part of an interdependent, living planet, concepts such as "rights of nature" and "law of ecocide" will become common sense."

This is an amazing website. A Global Initiative to Eradicate Ecocide:
http://eradicatingecocide.com/

Did you know that

"The concept of Ecocide has been around since the 1970s. Making Ecocide a Crime Against Peace was examined within the UN for decades throughout the 1970s – 1990s. It was shelved last minute in 1996 without being put to the vote and despite a number of countries objecting to its exclusion. Ecocide really is the missing 5th Crime Against Peace." ?

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[Dustlawyer]

1. The Earth is a big terrarium and we are shitting where we eat, to coin a phrase.

You aren't supposed to do that. I guess some (most) peoples idea of how big, or small this place really is happens to be way off!

[democratisphere]

2. Ecocide is being committed everyday at all corners of our planet.

If we don't stop the irreversible destruction of OUR LIFE SUPPORT ECOSYSTEMS, humans and many other species will cease to exist!! It is a crime and we will be punished to extinction.

[CFLDem]

3. This where the concept betrays itself as more woo

It is part of a transition to an economy with less throwaway stuff, and more things made with great care, more bikes and fewer cars, more gardens and fewer supermarkets, more leisure and less production, more recycling and fewer landfills, more sharing and less owning.

I think someone's been taking Avatar a little too seriously.

Americans love their cars, supermarkets, bottled water, and sense of economic division way too much for this to happen outside of San Francisco.

[peoli]

4. There would be a transition.

It wouldn't happen in a week.

[peoli]

5. Let's K&R this so the MSM sees it!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. No, of course not, don't be so silly.

Only specific, clearly-defined acts should ever be criminalised. "Ecocide" is a made-up non-word, and far too general and vague to be criminalised.

Note that practically no country has laws against "genocide". What they have are laws against murder. And ecological legislation should follow the same principle.

[peoli]

7. Thanks for responding but...

I don't really feel like you looked at any of the links with any sort of openness based on your response.

Ecocide is a word. It has a meaning. Having legal parameters to prosecute those who destroy ecosystems is not 'silly', but a necessary deterrent.