Ecocide and “Earth Right to Life” Would Impoverish Humankind

This interview by an utterly clueless interlocutor, illustrates why the proposed “international crime against peace” of “ecocide” would be so harmful to humanity.  Polly Higgens, the earth mother of the movement, would put the CEO of the tar sands development company, executives in charge of fracking for natural gas, etc. in jail for life—because she considers large scale development to be morally akin to genocide.  (I wonder what a Holocaust victim would say if her suffering were compared morally to caribou being displaced by oil drilling in the tundra?)

Note, Higgins is not necessarily talking about actual environmental disasters, but currently-legal large scale human resource development activities that disturb the natural flora and fauna of the area in which the human activity occurs.

And also note, Higgins says, “Genocide is a crime of intent. Ecocide is a crime of consequence...It is about closing the door to certain activities.”  Yup.  She says that development can only be permitted if there is “zero risk.”  And she talks about the “earth’s right to life.”  That is a prescription for continuing destitution in poor countries and imposing poverty on the rest of us who have benefitted so greatly from the wealth created by the kind of resource development that Higgins and her supporters would criminalize.  Radical environmentalists are anti human.

Higgens flew to Durban to pitch the anti humanism, contributing to “ecocide” by using resources obtained from mass development to get there: The warming allegedly caused by the jet she flew; the oil drilled to make the fuel burned by the engines; the large scale mining required to obtain the metal used in the aircraft, made useable by CO2 burning processes; the field mice and snakes displaced by the mass agriculture that produced the food she ate in the long flight she took to S. Africa; the rare earth stripped from the earth to build her high-tech phone and laptop computer.  She’s an accessory before and after the fact.  Throw away the keys!