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Ecocide: Why killing nature should be a crime
The 6th mass extinction is upon us. It’s a man-made biodiversity crisis fueled by climate change and mass-scale exploitative destruction of nature. We all play a part, but while more and more of us try to alter our habits, eat less meat, fly less, use public transportation, sort our garbage, cut out single-use plastic, and …
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A murderless* genocide in China?
What does genocide look like? Do gas chambers, machetes, and mass graves come to mind? Images of piles of mutilated bodies? I haven’t conducted a survey, but I’ll take a bet and say that most of us think of genocide as the intentional, large-scale murder of entire groups of people. But murder is just one …
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Bad business: Holding corporations accountable for international crimes
In the northern town of Jalabiya, Syria, lies the ruins of a cement plant. The factory was a subsidiary of French/Swiss company Lafarge SA (now LafargeHolcim), one of the biggest producers of building material in the world. It took Lafarge almost three years to build the plant in Syria, at an approximate cost of 680 …
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