Episodes
Sunday May 19, 2019
Ecocide as a criminal offense
Sunday May 19, 2019
Sunday May 19, 2019
In part two of my 2014 interview with Polly Higgins, we start by talking bout why ecocide should be a criminal, rather than civil matter.
Books:
Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of our Planet
— www.eradicatingecocide.com/books
Earth is our Business: Changing the Rules of the Game
— www.earthisourbusiness.com
See Ecocide Act: http://eradicatingecocide.com/overview/ecocide-act/
Sadly, Polly Higgens died of an aggressive cancer on Easter Sunday this year, a couple of months after the diagnosis.
Her work continues via the Earth Protectors (https://www.stopecocide.earth/ecocide)
Sunday May 19, 2019
Ecocide: International Crime Against Peace
Sunday May 19, 2019
Sunday May 19, 2019
Polly Higgins was a Scottish barrister, who left her career as a corporate lawyer to focus on environmental advocacy, and unsuccessfully lobbied the United Nations Law Commission to recognise ecocide as an international crime.
Ecocide had been proposed as one of the international crimes against peace in 1996, but failed to be included in the final Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Higgins started to campaign for its inclusion around 2009, when the Rome statue was being reviewed.
I had the great pleasure of interviewing her in 2014.
We shared a pot of tea, sat on my patio on a warm summer’s day, and discussed why ecocide wasn't adopted as an international crime.