It’s probably mostly because it says “the gravest crime against humanity” and not “a grave crime against humanity”. Except for the US, which always seems to vote against anything that might bind it.
There are 11 types of crimes against humanity in the Rome charter (must be widespread/systemic and targeted against civilian population):
Murder;
Extermination (including “the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population”);
Enslavement;
Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
Torture;
Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
Enforced disappearance of persons;
The crime of apartheid;
Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
… no mention of environmental crimes that impact humanity/human groups?
Toxic pollutants & climate change I mean.
The water wars & subsequent great migrations are gonna fuel the above list directly (+ the additional loss of habitat, biodiversity, and possibly the ability to raise children).
But all that would hint at megacorps of today being at fault. Which we apparently can’t have.
(Saying megacorps of the past benefiting from slavery is “victimless” … and ofc isn’t counting forced prison labour some countries like the USA practice today.)
Oh, yeah, possibly.
I read 11 as directly intentional and toward a specific individual or groups - like building a damn to starve ppl, not to feed your own … and with climate change I meant that a “weapon of mass destruction” version of that indirect, non-targeted destruction (that inevitably leads to an environment where more of the 11 points happen - more killing, more slavery, more rapes, etc).
Yeah fair enough, no doubt getting countries to agree that corporations should be accountable for “accidental” damage to the enviroment would be even more difficult than getting them to sign up to this!
It’s probably mostly because it says “the gravest crime against humanity” and not “a grave crime against humanity”. Except for the US, which always seems to vote against anything that might bind it.
There are 11 types of crimes against humanity in the Rome charter (must be widespread/systemic and targeted against civilian population):
… no mention of environmental crimes that impact humanity/human groups?
Toxic pollutants & climate change I mean.
The water wars & subsequent great migrations are gonna fuel the above list directly (+ the additional loss of habitat, biodiversity, and possibly the ability to raise children).
But all that would hint at megacorps of today being at fault. Which we apparently can’t have.
(Saying megacorps of the past benefiting from slavery is “victimless” … and ofc isn’t counting forced prison labour some countries like the USA practice today.)
Not sure if they would come under #11?
Oh, yeah, possibly.
I read 11 as directly intentional and toward a specific individual or groups - like building a damn to starve ppl, not to feed your own … and with climate change I meant that a “weapon of mass destruction” version of that indirect, non-targeted destruction (that inevitably leads to an environment where more of the 11 points happen - more killing, more slavery, more rapes, etc).
Yeah fair enough, no doubt getting countries to agree that corporations should be accountable for “accidental” damage to the enviroment would be even more difficult than getting them to sign up to this!