Dear Earth Stewards,
After speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum, our recent interviewee Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, was the target of online backlash fuelled by a misinterpretation of what she was discussing, ecocide law.
We appreciate the wisdom of both Jojo and ecocide, so we invited Anna Maddrick, Legal Analyst for Stop Ecocide International and Climate Adviser at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Vanuatu to the United Nations, to dive deeper into the legal and philosophical justifications for ecocide law. You can scroll down to read this story.
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Our Common Heritage: the Role of Ecocide Law
Until relatively recently, legal systems all over the world have been positioned against the environment’s conservation. The path toward legal reform requires a delicate balance between new and existing principles that ensure the preservation of nature, and thus environmental and human rights, for present and future generations.
Humanity's relationship with nature is in a new phase, where environmental and human systems are inextricably determinative of one another and their respective fates. With recent reports suggesting we have passed six of nine planetary boundaries, there is a tangible shift in understanding that we cannot sustain the illusion of unchecked interference with our finite natural environment, and that our shared planet, and even outer space, has a hastily depleting capacity to sustain such practices.
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