STOP ECOCIDE
Oct 07, 2019
3 minutes
TEXT JOJO MEHTA AND TALIA WOODIN
PHOTOGRAPHY
THEO MCINNES
In 1972, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was responsible for the first prominent use of the term ‘ecocide’, adopting it to describe the catastrophic environmental damage sustained during the Vietnam War. Speaking at the United Nations’ first major environmental conference, he stressed the need for a global approach when it came to protecting the environment.
While the term was picked up again and discussed throughout the drafting
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