Book contents
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1Ecoviolence Studies and Human Security
- 2The Links between Human Trafficking and Wildlife Trafficking
- 3Preventing a Secondary Disaster: How Emergency Management Agencies Can Prepare and Respond to Disaster-Linked Exploitation
- 4Ecoviolence at Sea
- 5There Will Be Blood: The Return of the Frontier Logic in Guyana and Hyper-Exploitation in the Mining Sector
- 6Artisanal Gold Mining in Uganda: Towards Formalization as Remediation of Dignity and Rights
- 7Searching for Shelter in the Climate Crisis Era: Ecocide and Migration
- 8Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
- 9Sea of Cortez Region: Crime and Ecosystem Crossroads
- 10Minority Languages as Collateral Damage in the Climate Crisis: The Incidental Result of Ecoviolence on Y Gymraeg/Welsh Language
- Index
- References
8 - Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 February 2025
Book contents
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1Ecoviolence Studies and Human Security
- 2The Links between Human Trafficking and Wildlife Trafficking
- 3Preventing a Secondary Disaster: How Emergency Management Agencies Can Prepare and Respond to Disaster-Linked Exploitation
- 4Ecoviolence at Sea
- 5There Will Be Blood: The Return of the Frontier Logic in Guyana and Hyper-Exploitation in the Mining Sector
- 6Artisanal Gold Mining in Uganda: Towards Formalization as Remediation of Dignity and Rights
- 7Searching for Shelter in the Climate Crisis Era: Ecocide and Migration
- 8Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
- 9Sea of Cortez Region: Crime and Ecosystem Crossroads
- 10Minority Languages as Collateral Damage in the Climate Crisis: The Incidental Result of Ecoviolence on Y Gymraeg/Welsh Language
- Index
- References
Summary
The causes of climate change are largely due to the carbon emission activities of nation states and transnational corporations. This chapter considers these activities as crimes of the powerful, a form of ecocide, insofar as they contribute to global warming. In addition to exploring the contours of ecocide as a crime, the chapter deals with issues pertaining to contrarianism and the exploitation of natural resources, both of which protect and sustain sectional private interests rather than the majority public interest. The chapter argues that needed social transformations must go beyond “speaking truth to power” to actually confront the powerful. How this might be accomplished is examined through consideration of green capitalism, the movement toward just transitions, the idea of a Green New Deal, and the importance of transformational nationalisation. Combatting the violence of ecocide fundamentally requires root and branch change in the global political economy.
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- Ecoviolence StudiesHuman Exploitation and Environmental Crime, pp. 139 - 157Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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