Eradicating Ecocide: Exposing the Corporate and Political Practices Destroying the Planet and Proposing the Laws Needed to Eradicate Ecocide

By Polly Higgins

Providing a comprehensive legal overview of the past 200 years, this enlightening account exposes the laws and inadequate voluntary global governance that have triggered an eco-colonizationor ecocideof the planet. Examining laws from around the world that have been successfully developed to curtail the power of environmentally oppressing institutions, this record analyzes the impact of corporate dominance and argues that duty of care is owed to the public and the wider earth community. This investigation will interest policy makers, business leaders, activists, and lawyers alike.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
• Release date: Dec 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9780856833328

Polly Higgins

World-renowned barrister and author Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations that ecocide be made a crime - to prohibit mass damage and destruction. She was voted one of the World’s Top 10 Visionary Thinkers, No. 35 in Salt Magazine’s Top 100 Inspiring Women of the World and dubbed The People’s Lawyer. Her story is a journey of facing something enormous and finding the keys and tools to unlock something even greater instead. Calling on leaders to step into their greatness, she realized that greatness begins with the self. A unique story, it is part self-learned, part self-unlearned. To break the cycles of harm playing out in the world, our ecocides, is to break the cycles of harm playing within ourselves. Polly was also the award-winning author of 'Eradicating Ecocide'. She passed away in April 2019 and her legacy is being continued by the Stop Ecocide group who are working at an international level to ratify the ecocide law in 2020 and by the work of Extinction Rebellion.

Reviews for Eradicating Ecocide

[the7ken7petersen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is so lacking in sensationalism: why can't EVERYONE see that an international law against ecocide (the wilful destruction of the environment for financial gain) is need - and quickly?Polly Higgins makes her case in layman's term (she was a lawyer). The book totally lacks those sensational claims that can so easily discredit climate action books: you know the kind of thing, "If we don't all abandon transport, houses and food IMMEDIATELY, the world will explode next Tuesday." Polly builds a series of nods of agreement until, the reader has committed to her cause.Polly, sadly, died in 2019 but others are taking up the challenge and this law will come into being. Let's just hope that it comes soon!