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  • 8 - Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide

  • Edited by Peter Stoett, Ontario Tech University, Delon Omrow, Ontario Tech University
  • Book:
    Ecoviolence Studies
    Published online:
    13 February 2025
    Print publication:
    20 February 2025, pp 139-157

  • Summary

    The causes of climate change are largely due to the carbon emission activities of nation states and transnational corporations. This chapter considers these activities as crimes of the powerful, a form of ecocide, insofar as they contribute to global warming. In addition to exploring the contours of ecocide as a crime, the chapter deals with issues pertaining to contrarianism and the exploitation of natural resources, both of which protect and sustain sectional private interests rather than the majority public interest. The chapter argues that needed social transformations must go beyond “speaking truth to power” to actually confront the powerful. How this might be accomplished is examined through consideration of green capitalism, the movement toward just transitions, the idea of a Green New Deal, and the importance of transformational nationalisation. Combatting the violence of ecocide fundamentally requires root and branch change in the global political economy.