The unfolding human and ecological disaster of GM agriculture in the Americas must send the EU a powerful message, writes Helena Paul. We don't want it here, and we should stop buying the products of GM-driven genocide and ecocide abroad.
… GM crops are driving genocide and ecocide - keep them out of the EU! Helena Paul | 5th February 2014 News Genocide Ecocide Gm Food GMOs South America … should stop buying the products of GM-driven genocide and ecocide abroad. We currently face …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… The Ecomodernist Manifesto is a program for genocide and ecocide Derrick Jensen | 10th … their perspective, committing mass murder and genocide, but were 'purifying the Aryan Race'. … . The United States has never committed genocide, but rather has fulfilled its …
The true nature of western civilization is hard to grasp from within, says Professor John McMurtry, because we perceive it through media whose primary purpose is not to convey the truth, but conceal it. What is actually playing out is a global war of empire and capital against the Earth and her people, backed up by the omnipresent threat of overwhelming force.
… Genocide, ecocide and the Empire of Chaos … underneath all the lies - an endless eco-genocide of poorer peoples and their life … opposes private corporate globalization. The genocide of first peoples was its original …
There is nothing new in the environmental damage brought by war, writes Steven Freeland. Nor is there anything new about deliberate environmental damage as a instrument of warfare. But what is new is the scale of damage that can be inflicted by modern weapons of mass destruction. It's time for an international law against intentional environmental destruction.
… war crime , a crime against humanity, or even genocide in certain circumstances, we should …
Oliver Tickell met Polly Higgins, remarkable campaigner and founder of Mission Lifeforce, shortly before she died this month.
… the existing international law against genocide - the mass destruction of peoples. … I found myself thinking, 'yes, it's there for genocide, to stop the mass destruction of …
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square?
… an 85 per cent cut is required to avoid genocide in Africa smacks of political … it has got to be 80 to 85 per cent, or it is genocide in Africa and we’re risking very …
Million dollar fines and compensation claims may dent the profits of BP and other companies admitting responsibility for ecological disasters but, on their own, are they enough of a deterrent?
… same way that individuals are prosecuted for genocide or war crimes. The International … to prosecution of individuals of four crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes …
Pictures available online for the first time show that the effects of global warming are far worse than previously expeced. The images produced by the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Meteorological Office, show for the first time that the Stern Review's timeline for action is wrong.
… rise that is referred to as the economics of genocide. In the UK by 2020 temperatures may …
Thousands of miles of coastlines are contaminated with oil spills. Rain forests burn. What if those responsible faced jail time?
… solve the climate emergency on their own. Genocide has been illegal since 1945, but is … terrible destruction of the Amazon and the genocide of its people? It may not be easy to …
Lawyer Polly Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an international crime against peace. But how will this work in practice?
… of four Crimes Against Peace. They are: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
The future of energy is renewable Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 27th February 2009 News Renewable Energy Energy Oil UK Coal Gas Climate Change Global Warming Carbon Dioxide Carbon Dioxide Global Warming …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
… of what has been termed ‘the economics of genocide’. Essentially, the whole of Africa … you prepared to do? Are you willing to risk genocide in Africa, Bangladesh, Southern …
As global media focus on Crimea's forthcoming referendum on whether to join Russia, we remember another 'Act of Free Choice' in West Papua in 1969 - which set off 45 years of military occupation, theft, repression and murder.
… people in numbers that could constitute a genocide. One of the worst examples of this is …
This autumn the Monsanto Tribunal will assemble experts from around the world to set out the evidence against the global mega-corporation, which will stand accused of monstrous 'crimes' against people and the environment. The Tribunal's verdict will not be legally binding - this time. But on a future occasion, it may be.
… perpetrators of crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. Committing ecocide - …
Venezuela is set to hand over 12% of the nation's territory in the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, with 150 companies from 35 countries poised to devastate the army-controlled 'special economic zone'. But resistance is growing, and a counter-proposal aims to protect the area's precious biodiversity, indigenous cultures and water resources in a new South Orinoco Mega Reserve.
… described as an 'ecocide' and a 'silent genocide', as it would result in habitat … described as an 'ecocide' and a 'silent genocide', as it would result in habitat …
Studies have shown that while there is a greater awareness of the seriousness of environmental damage in society, this shift is not obvious in environmental sentencing. Jason Lowther reports
… some readers will possibly wish to conflate genocide and ecocide, the international …