Sentences with word «ecocide»

I noticed an article first published in Socialist Lawyer that envisions putting the head of the current Olympics into the dock because he gave committers of ecocide awards for being green.

Does anyone really believe for a second that Shell isn't responsible for committing ecocide and human rights violations?

We Homo sapiens are witnessing the greatest annihilation of species in the last 65 million years, and our children may live to witness ecocide with their own eyes.

Some person needs to organize a discussion of saving the Earth from ecocide and extinction by 1.

Is «ascertainable ecocide» (deforestation, oil spills, fossil fuel extraction, pollution - dumping) a problem for «the inhabitants of [a] territory», if it is not the case that «peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory have been severely diminished»?

We are particularly concerned about ecocide and the pollution of rivers and river beds from mining which has rendered a lot of drinking water unsafe.

The second exhibition in Alembic brings together a newly commissioned video work by Maggie Roberts and new sculptural works by Ayesha Tan Jones, to form a post-anthropocene ecocide narrative.

It is, rather, an inadvertent ecocide; though as evidence mounts and as years pass, we drift from the realm of «inadvertant» to negligent.

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.

Is Ken Caldeira a paid liar with no apparent sense of remorse for his part in helping to hide the greatest crime of genocide and ecocide ever carried out by the human race, global climate engineering / geoengineering?

Couldn't such wholesale environmental destruction be called ecocide?

To me the moral path lies not in passively accepting our destructive role, but in actively resisting [ecocide.]

While it's not quite establishing ecocide as a crime internationally, it's a good idea.

«We allow the same companies that continue to commit ecocide to sit at the table that decides what climate justice means to us,» Nyambura said.

Sharing the Commons — separative consciousness and genocide; unity consciousness and commoning; property rights paradigm shift; land value capture and commons trusts; jubilee justice public finance policies; restoring ecosystems; from ecocide to sharing and caring for the world's resources.

In a three - page statement, the «criminal» history of America since 1492 is recounted in terms of theft, «ecocide,» rape (two times), colonization (five times), racism (four times), slavery (seven times), exploitation (eight times), and genocide (nine times).

Journalist Michael Buckley moves beyond the genocide in Tibet to report on the «ecocide» occurring in the region due to climate change, mining and dams

Economics of War and Peace — Land and resource wars; financial domination; US foreign policy; ecocide; shifting from «full spectrum dominance» to full spectrum sharing; the money question; religious conflicts; resource rent for public revenue; geo - confederation for conflictzones; earth rights democracy.

Convenience food, for me, is the convergence of art history, nostalgia and ecocide.

asks how do humans, and their creations, adapt to uncontrollable environmental changes after centuries of ecocide?

If unwilling to do so, then you must understand you are possibly choosing suicide and genocide and ecocide.

Actually, genocide and ecocide have both proven effective in population control, and are more cost - effective.

Wielding of wealth for power of your political cronies and economic «class» against the best interests of the nation and the people (this is treason) and the planet (ecocide, crimes against humanity.)

Then, the key line of that speech appeared: «Si nosotros mandamos a la basura el Protocol de Kyoto, seriamos responsables de econocidio, ecocidio, y genocidio» (If we toss the Kyoto Protocol in the garbage, we would be responsible for econocide, ecocide, and genocide).

So in order to cope with this problem, Higgins makes a distinction between «ascertainable ecocide»: deforestation, oil spills, fossil fuel extraction, pollution - dumping; and non-ascertainable ecocide: tsunami, earthquake, typhoon, Act of God.

The line of interest here is that ecocide is caused «by human agency or by other causes», but it's only ecocide that is»cause d by human agency» which is pertinent.

«We allow the same companies that continue to commit ecocide to sit at the table that decides what climate justice means to us.»

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.

As former Bolivian Ambassadar to the UN, Pablo Solon said at last week's Wolpe Memorial Lecture, «The COP17 will be remembered as a place of premeditated genocide and ecocide.»

When the scale of damage rises to that of ecocide, there is no amount of stats parsing that makes it allowable, that justifies it.