Political Science/Environmental Law

Everyone’s heard of genocide: that horrible act of wiping out groups of people. But have you heard of ecocide? No, because no one cares; that's why. Yet, it could relate to genocide, as private and public actors together knew about climate change since the 1960s, if not before, and did nothing.

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by Dr. Stephan Hauser, University of Helsinki

10/21/20261 min read

factories with smoke under cloudy sky
factories with smoke under cloudy sky

Everyone’s heard of genocide: that horrible act of wiping out groups of people. But have you heard of ecocide? No, because no one cares; that's why. Yet, it could relate to genocide, as private and public actors together knew about climate change since the 1960s, if not before, and did nothing.

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