“They say there’s no such thing as a new crime—only new laws. And that’s why activists and advocates are campaigning for crimes against nature to become a reality. They want the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to add the crime of “ecocide” to its statute, putting massive environmental damage in the books alongside the four existing major atrocity crimes—of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of starting an aggressive war.”

By Simone Scriven for The Delacorte Review, 18/07/2023