SYMPATHISANT.e.S de la loi sur l’écocide

 

Évêque de Rome et chef de l'Église catholique

«Par "écocide", il faut entendre la perte, l'endommagement et la destruction des écosystèmes d'un territoire donné, de sorte que la jouissance de ce territoire par ses habitants a été ou peut être gravement affectée. Il s'agit d'une cinquième catégorie de crimes contre la paix, qui devrait être reconnue comme telle par la communauté internationale.»

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Ethnologue et fondatrice de l'Institut Jane Goodall. Messagère de la paix des Nations unies

«Le concept d’écocide est attendu depuis longtemps. Cela pourrait amener à un changement important dans la manière dont les gens perçoivent - et répondent à - la crise environmentale actuelle.»

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Ancien rapporteur spécial des Nations unies, professeur émérite de droit international, Université de Princeton

«La fracturation hydraulique représente une attaque écocide extrêmement dangereuse pour l'environnement, et doit être combattue et interdite.»

Militante écologiste

Le 16 juillet 2020, Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, anuna de Wever et Adélaïde Carlier ont exigé, dans une lettre ouverte, que tous les dirigeants et chefs d'État de l'UE «fassent face à l'urgence climatique" et "plaident pour faire de l'écocide un crime international devant la Cour pénale internationale.»

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Journaliste, auteure et activiste

«Nous sommes dans une situation d'urgence environnementale.»

«Il est temps de faire de l'écocide un crime contre l'humanité et de mettre en avant les droits des personnes et de la Nature afin de créer une planète saine et durable pour toutes les espèces.»

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Chanteur, auteur-compositeur, cofondateur de Meat Free Monday

«J'ai récemment entendu parler de cette campagne visant à faire de l'écocide (dommages graves et destruction de la nature) un crime à la Cour pénale internationale. L'idée fait visiblement son chemin... et pas avant le temps si nous voulons éviter que la planète ne soit encore plus dévastée. Je viens de m'inscrire en tant que "protecteur de la Terre" pour la soutenir.»

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Directeur exécutif de Environmental Rights Action
Director de santé à
Mother Earth Foundation

«Je crois de tout coeur en cette cause. Faire de l’écocide une loi reconnue imposera des limites sur les actions irresponsables des gros bonnets qui se cachent derrière des boucliers corporatifs pour détruire des vies et nuire à la planète.»

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ERVIN LASZLO

Founder President of the Club of Budapest

“In these days when the human impact on the environment is becoming everyday more evident and proves to be not only damaging to our surroundings but a serious threat to human life and survival, it is imperative that we should declare Ecocide a Crime Against Peace.

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Indian Scholar, Environmental Activist, Food Sovereignty Advocate and Anti-Globalization Author. Founder of Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources

“The Ecocide trial is a very important step in waking us up to the violence which is the foundation of the current economy. The ideal of limitless growth is leading to limitless violations of the rights of the Earth and of the rights of nature. This is ecocide.”

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Author, speaker, co-founder of Pachamama Alliance

“An international law of ecocide is long overdue and absolutely must happen. It is an essential component of protecting life on Earth. I fully support the Stop Ecocide movement.”

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Human Rights Lawyer

"As a lawyer and father, I plea for laws that effectively protect our planet, our children and our future generations. Recognising the human right to a healthy environment and ecocide law at the global level, will definitely help. We only have one planet and time is running out. Ecocide will mend our criminal law system. Join us, get on board: become an Earth Protector."

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Directeur fondateur et fiduciaire de Forum for the Future

“L’idée d’établir un crime d’écocide est à la fois percutante et opportune… J’ai désormais rejoint le mouvement des protecteurs de la Terre! Je partage l’analyse que “seul le droit pénal peut mettre fin à la destruction”, car il est clair que les sanctions légales actuelles omettent complètement de faire ce dont nous avons besoin qu’elles fassent urgemment”.

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Author, spiritual leader, politician, and activist

“Polly Higgins did something extremely important. She changed the way our civilization now looks at the rights of the earth itself. By bringing the notion of ecocide into legal question, she has expanded the way we think of what is happening around us.”

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Autheur et journaliste

“Je crois qu’un crime d’écocide pourrait tout changer. Cela va radicalement déplacer l’équilibre des pouvoirs, forçant quiconque contemplant le vandalisme à grande échelle, de se demander: ‘Finirai-je à la Cour pénale internationale pour cela?’. Cette loi pourrait faire la différence entre une planète vivable et invivable.”

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Human rights and environmental activist. Former Executive Director Greenpeace International

“Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get aware with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for those who are destroying our future and this planet. We need fast, profound and systemic change. History only moves forward when courageous people get up and act. That’s why I support this citizen’s initiative to recognise ecocide as the crime it is.”

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Environmentalist, model, actress

“Mass damage and destruction of nature is called Ecocide and it should be an international crime, just like genocide. That's why I signed up to the Stop Ecocide campaign, working with lawyers, researchers and diplomats to make Ecocide a crime at the International Criminal Court.”

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Leading Human Rights Lawyer

“The problem in the past is that if you hold a company responsible [for environmental destruction], who sits in the dock? Who is responsible? There are real people in the company and the object of the Ecocide act is not just aimed at companies it is aimed at individuals… individual responsibility is the only way there will be any change.”

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Founder of, Sea First Foundation

"We call our planet Earth, but in fact we should call it "Planet Ocean". Over 70% of the surface itself consists of ocean/sea... it is literally vital that we have a healthy ocean... the Sea First Foundation supports this initiative wholeheartedly. Ecocide law will protect the ocean from the damage and destruction caused by humans."

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Author, Chair of Council of Canadians, Chair of Board of Food and Water (Washington)

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide. The move to commodify all of nature is the next step in its destruction. The earth is not ours to plunder. Nature has rights as surely as any that exist.

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Founder of Liology Institute. Author & Cognitive Historian

"The International Criminal Court ... has had the effect of putting tyrants everywhere on notice that they can no longer act with impunity. If ecocide were declared a crime by the ICC, this could have a similarly daunting effect on those corporate tyrants who currently know they can get away with devastating the world’s “sacrifice zones” where they are pillaging the earth’s resources for profit."

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UK MP for Brighton Pavilion. Former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

“Establishing the law of Ecocide would signal a major breakthrough in the way we deal with crimes against the natural world. Polly Higgins’ groundbreaking proposal to list Ecocide as the fifth global crime against peace would go a long way towards deterring and holding to account CEOs, companies and nations. Whether it’s oil drilling in the Arctic, deforestation in the Amazon, or over-fishing in the Atlantic, activities which impact severely on global ecosystems would be brought under far closer scrutiny. It could also play a significant role in encouraging companies to drop the dirty, polluting industries of old, and invest in the clean technologies and renewable energy solutions of the future.”

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Co-Founder and Director of The Hamilton Group

“Having devised and organised the Ecocide Mock Trial at The Supreme Court of the UK, I have got to know the arguments for and against Ecocide. I am convinced that making Ecocide a Crime against Peace will make Heads of State and those who run corporations think very carefully about authorising activities which might lead to major environmental damage. Building Restorative Justice into the proposed Ecocide Act as part of the sentencing process can only help to bring greater understanding and awareness of the need to change thinking and raise awareness of the damage done to humans and non-humans in the pursuit on non-sustainable extractive processes.”

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Chair of Uniting for Peace

“The catastrophic degradation of environment, destruction, damage or loss of ecosystems is happening on a mass scale everyday as more and more carbon emissions are emitted by the ever increasing industrial output in our world. The best way to overcome it is to adopt Polly Higgins proposed Law of Ecocide for the safety of future generations.”

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The worldwide destruction of Earth’s climate and biodiversity is proof that our current legal system is failing to protect the natural ecosystems that all life depends on. We need to develop more earth centric laws that acknowledge and protect the innate rights of nature itself, such as a law on ecocide. They will enhance a more respectful and sustainable treatment of our common home in our ongoing social, cultural and economic development. It will help us preserve for all the children of all species what is valuable and beautiful in this world.

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European Division

“The World Peace Prayer Society welcomes the Law of Ecocide to be recognised as a crime against peace. One of our activities is to pray for the peace of nature and we therefore support her (Polly Higgins) efforts to stop the severe damage to our environment and wonderful planet. May Peace Prevail with Nature – May Peace Prevail on Earth.”

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Member of the European Parliament

"The recognition of ecocides has been discussed since the 1960s and the use in Vietnam of the Agent Orange on ecosystems and the population. More than 50 years later, the gravest environmental crimes remain unpunished, and justice has still to come for the Vietnamese, and all the other victims of ecocides, humans or non-humans. We still have the choice to save our planet, or not. It is time to recognize ecocide."

 

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