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Bianca Jagger, Founder and Chair of Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
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In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and activist Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate in no uncertain terms how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by 'compromise' laws that offer insufficient deterrence. She offers a solution that is radical but, as she explains with great competence and experience, absolutely necessary. The recent Mexican Gulf oil spill is a compelling reminder of the consequences of un-checked ecocide. Higgins advocates the introduction of a new international law against Ecocide. It would become the 5th Crime Against Peace and would hold to account heads of corporate bodies that are found guilty of perpetrating ecocide.
The opportunity to implement this law represents a crossroads in the fate of humanity; we can accept this one change and in doing so save our ecosystem for future generations, or we can continue to destroy it, risking future brutal war over disappearing natural resources. This is the first book to explain that we all have a commanding voice and the power to call upon all our governments to change the existing rules of the game. Higgins presents examples of laws in other countries which have succeeded in curtailing the power of governments, corporations and banks and made a sudden and effective change, demonstrating that her proposal is not impossible. Eradicating Ecocide is a crash course on what laws work, what doesn't and what else is needed to prevent the imminent disaster of global collapse. Eradicating Ecocide provides a comprehensive overview of what needs to be done in order to prevent ecocide. It is a book providing a template of a body of laws for all governments to implement, which applies equally to smaller communities and anyone who is involved in decision-making.
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The beginning of the book offers an overview of the history of fossil fuel usage and the birth of the corporation. We learn of how coal helped fuel the rapid growth of the British Empire and then how oil helped the US become the powerhouse that it is today. We also learn how corporations grew to become so powerful. How they are free from legislation meaning that to this day they have the power to cross borders, abuse human and environmental rights, and cause vast destruction without being held accountable or punished.
Higgins reminds us of the silent rights - e.g. the right to pollute - which seem to be destroying our planet. She argues we must stop viewing the world as an inert thing waiting to be owned and exploited and instead should treat it as a living thing which should be enjoyed for its sake and allowed to flourish. Rather than owners of the planet we should become its guardians, and we must not forget that with rights come responsibilities - the responsibility to ensure people can enjoy a clean and healthy environment, that ecosystems are protected etc.
Thus, it is with this backdrop that Higgins introduces Ecocide - the mass "damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished". She argues this should be made the 5th Crime Against Peace. If made law it would have the power to halt extremely damaging practices at source. Furthermore, it would force corporations to act in an environmentally responsible fashion and if they did not individuals (e.g. CEOs) could face time in prison.
Higgins' combines hope and pragmatism to offer us a view of a very different world - one where large corporations need not be seen as the villains as they would now act to protect the planet, one where the law is proactively used to limit our exploitation of the world's resources, and where all its inhabitants are well looked after.
Eradicating Ecocide is one of the best recent additions to the literature on protecting the planet. Furthermore, you need not be a die hard environmentalist or a lawyer to appreciate quite how far reaching the policies it advocates could be.
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