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Leader of Ecocide Movement Aims to Criminalize Long-lasting Harm to the Environment 

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Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocid e in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins , to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. The following is a partial transcript of their talk, edited for clarity.

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Making Ecocide a Crime

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Many of the world's most serious environmental problems would be addressed if we were to make ecocide a crime. Here are excerpts from an article titled Ecocide, genocide and the disregard of alternative life-system s by Tim Lindgrin. However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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