Abstract
Our contemporary world gives agency to Law as the source of determining right and wrong. With a global history of increasingly, seemingly justifiable human destruction of the natural environment for political and economic cause, Law is empowered to step in and declare ‘no more’. At the level of courts and national governments, Law is a higher figure, compelling action on a global scale to label and adjudicate acts of ecocide. Yet, even Law must reflect on its role as accomplice or objector to the ongoing realities of manmade environment calamity and destruction.
The rules of our world are laws, and they can be changed.
Laws can restrict or they can enable.
What matters is what they serve. https://twitter.com/EcocideLaw/status/1384802479678894080/photo/1
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Notes
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Deleuze and Guattari (1987).
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Deleuze and Guattari (1987), p. 18.
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Deleuze and Guattari (1987), p. 42.
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Deleuze and Guattari (1987), p. 71.
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Kevelson (2015), p. 215.
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Mootz (2011), pp. 5–20.
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Broekman (2010), p. 58.
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Deleuze and Guattari (1987), p. 121.
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Entry “The Holocaust and the Environmental Crisis” in Taylor (2006).
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Citation of Peirce quoted in Broekman (2011), p. 3.
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Weisberg (1970), p. 8.
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Zierler (2011).
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Cook et al. (1970), p. 94.
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Weisberg (1970), p. 19.
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Weisberg (1970), p. 20.
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Entry “Environment and Security” in Denemark and Marlin-Bennett (2017).
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Gauger et al. (2012).
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Higgins et al. (2013), p. 262.
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Falk (1971), p. 20.
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Neyret (2015), p. 338.
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Wagner, A., Marusek, S. (2023). From Life to Law: Towards an Evolving Conception of Ecocide. In: Fleerackers, F. (eds) The Rearguard of Subjectivity. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26855-7_14
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