ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: Environmental Crimes against Humanity

Jun 2, 2020 | Darryl Robinson
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In this post, the author argues that mass harms to humans, directly produced through harms to their environment, can in principle satisfy the existing definition of crimes against humanity.  At first glance, this conclusion will seem counter-intuitive for some readers, because we are habituated to think of environmental harm as “separate” from harms to humans.  The author will briefly address both the perceptual barriers and the interpretive questions for “environmental crimes against humanity” (“ECAH”).