1. The Future of Environmental Crime
Ecocide: The Missing 5th Crime Against Peace

2. Crimes Against Peace as set out By Roman Statue
Crimes Against Humanity
War Crimes
Genocide
Crimes of Aggression
Ecocide

3. The Problem
UN’s Global Environmental Outlook 5 (2012): anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System are unprecedented.
Scientific agreement that humanity has exceeded at least three planetary boundaries.
Ecocide, the extensive destruction of ecosystems; large scale land use change, pollution, open cast mining.
Problem – extensive damage and destruction to people and the planet and law’s not working. No comprehensive legal instrument to deal with this; there is a gap in the law.

4. The Solution  but is their recourse or accountability
Ecocide the 5th Crime Against Peace:
The extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished
Currently all of this is just hollow rhetoric
The solution is to make Ecocide the fifth Crime Against Peace.

5. Oversimplified and shallow expectation
Ecocide
Oversimplified and shallow expectation
It is a Crime Against Peace because it leads to resource depletion, conflict and war and locks us into a cycle of destruction and war.

6. A more nuanced
View of the feedbacks

8. Moral wrong = criminal wrong
Just because it is the norm to destroy the Earth
does not mean that it is right
Just because we have normalized environmental destruction, does not make it right.

20. The Aggregate Matters
Each of this individual actions or events is simply an isolated incident, in and of itself not meaning much.
However, the aggregate is the price of doing business in an ever increasing consumption world.
Is that business morally justified?