Love Letter to the Earth
Friends of the Ecocide campaign
"The Ecocide trial is a very important step in waking us up to the violence which is the foundation of the current economy." – Vandana Shiva, philosopher and activist
"This Ecocide law may be the only way to make climate criminals rethink their crimes of commission and omission" – Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth
"Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide." – Maude Barlow, former UN advisor
"The object of the Ecocide Act is not just aimed at companies it is aimed at individuals… individual responsibility is the only way there will be any change.” – Michael Mansfield QC, leading human rights lawyer
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What is Ecocide?
Ecocide is the destruction, damage and loss of ecosystems. It is happening on a mass scale, every day and it is getting worse. But we can change this – by making it a crime.
An international law of Ecocide would make CEOs and our Heads of State legally responsible for the Earth. People and planet would become the number one priority.
Ecocide is part of Earth law – a new body of law we need to protect the Earth.
Find out more about the problem, the solution and what you can do.
Latest Headlines
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Why we need a law on ecocide
Posted on January 15, 2011 | 1 CommentUntil we have a law to prosecute those who destroy the planet, corporations will never be called to account for their crimes. Sophie Scholl, a Munich University student, was executed for revealing the truth about the activities of the Nazi authorities; today 20 brave Ratcliffe... -
COP 16: Cancun – Corporate and Complicit
Posted on January 3, 2011 | No CommentsColonialism by the Sea It was a surreal setting for the latest episode of the world’s climate negotiations: mega-all-inclusive exclusive hotels stretching the whole way along a 3 kilometre-long promontory, promoting themselves and their private stretches of pristine beach as ‘Colonialism by the Sea.’ UN negotiators... -
Eradicating Ecocide – the book
Posted on September 6, 2010 | 8 Comments“Eradicating Ecocide highlights the need for enforceable, legally binding mechanisms in national and international law to hold to account perpetrators of long term severe damage to the environment. At this critical juncture in history it is vital that we set global standards of accountability for... -
BP Deepwater Horizon ecocide
Posted on April 23, 2010 | 8 Comments22/04/10: This morning’s news that the BP oil rig has collapsed is a tragedy for both people and planet. 11 workers are feared dead whilst the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, located 50 miles away from the Louisiana coast, could release more than 1,135,600 litres... -
British campaigner urges UN to accept ‘ecocide’ as international crime
Posted on April 9, 2010 | 40 CommentsProposal to declare mass destruction of ecosystems a crime on a par with genocide launched by lawyer. Read the full Guardian article here -
Lessons UNlearned
Posted on April 8, 2010 | 1 CommentHow the UN and Member States must do more to end resource-fuelled conflict. Drawing on Global Witness’ experience in Angola, Cambodia, DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, this report aims to promote understanding of, and a strategy for dealing with, the problem of natural resource wealth... -
British banks finance tar sands companies
Posted on April 8, 2010 | 4 CommentsTar sands extraction in Canada is devastating Indigenous communities, wildlife and vast areas of boreal forests, as well as being many times more carbon-intensive to produce than ‘conventional’ oil. “We are seeing a terrifyingly high rate of cancer in Fort Chipewyan where I live. We are... -
Ecocide
Posted on April 8, 2010 | 20 CommentsA CRIME AGAINST PEACE Ecocide is the extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem(s) 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. This is the...
