Ecopoliticide: The Strategic Murder of Environmental Activists Is a Fundamental Threat to Human and Environmental Security

Jun 8, 2024 | Delon Omrow and Peter Stoett
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“Ecopoliticide” provides a conceptual framework for exploring how acts of campaigning, protesting, and resisting against ecocide lead to various forms of retribution. To illuminate this trend, the article provides two case studies: the suppression of political opposition leaders and the detainment of human rights activist Rocio San Miguel in Venezuela as well as the harassment of journalists in Guyana. The authors suggest that these contexts could portend the extreme violence against environmental activists witnessed with astonishing regularity in recent years.