Explain eczid as crimes against humanity

First, the context. It doesn't work. In this century, the planet is on the way to Armageddon when we continue with our current non -sustainable lifestyle. The Paris Chord Redline was violated by 1.5 ° C temperature increase, the CO2 levels have risen by 125 percent above the pre-industrial values, and 425 ppm approach the survival limit of 450 ppm. For the past three years, the hottest in the recorded history has been; Himalaya glaciers are expected to disappear by the end of the century and cause unimaginable water shortages for a quarter of the world population. Thousands of species are extended every year. The planet cannot live with this depression much longer.

One of the main reasons for this upcoming misfortune is the humgle expansion of the deforestation. Global Forest Watch has reported that 10 million hectares of forest are felled worldwide every year. That means 100,000 km² or twice as large as the area of ​​Himacal Pradesh. Between 2001 and 2023 we lost 408 million hectares for development, agriculture and logging and also lost a CO2 sequestration capacity of 204 Giga tons. And this cuts off in the countries because the governments are looking for short -term economic profits and multinational companies are not punished with natural resources.

The regular conference of the parties (COP) meetings are exercises in senselessness. Consider a few of the latest predatory examples of environmental blood members – 30 percent of the forests in the Amazon Basin have already been lost through mining and logging. And yet Ecuador has completed the plans to auction 3 million ha of the Amazon forests for mining. The bombing of the Kakhovka dam in eastern Ukraine in 2023 by Russia solved 18 cubic km confiscated water and destroyed hundreds of square kilometers of the natural environment and habitats.

Indonesia is currently implementing the world's largest deforestation project: 30,689 km² of the third largest rainforest are deleted to sugar cane (for ethanol and food cultures). This will completely destroy the region's biological diversity. In Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, hundreds of thousands of hectares of virgin forests were picked up for palm oil plantations. The WWF has estimated that wildlife populations (including marine life) have decreased by 70 percent in the past five decades.

India, as it is decided by a country at the end of the environmental performance index, is one of the worst looters of forests. Regardless of the regular fudding of reports and statistics, the government's own admission to the parliament shows that 1.73,000 hectares for non-forestry activities have been derived in the past 10 years. According to Global Forest Watch, the country has lost 2.33 million ha for woods between 2000 and 2024. The state of the forest report for 2022 states that between 2015 and 2021 the categories of 31.36,700 ha dense forests have broken down on the categories or scrubbings, and 9.4 million trees were fell for road, mining, hydra and other projects. And this rush of biodiversity is relentlessly with approved projects such as the Great Nicobar Terminal, the Kancha Gachibowli in Hyderabad, the destruction of 9,000 mangrove for a coastal street project in Mumbai, the Char Dham NH, a special road to Rishikesh (at a price of 33,000 trees) for Yogi projecting project Iron or the Iron Minnesand projects, the Iron or Iron -Trees project, on that in the already -Treen projects, in the Eisen -Treen projects, or on the patterns, in the already, the destruction. Karnataka, which will lead to a distance of 99,000 trees, a pumped memory project in the Shahabad forests of the Baran District of Rajasthan, which falls by more than 100,000 tire trees. It is an infinite and heartbreaking list of the environmental cocalypse.

This level of environmental massacre and extinction of biological diversity is in a way worse than the genocide, since it affects not only one or two communities, but also the entire planet. Temperatures, CO2 levels and the loss of biological diversity do not recognize political, ethnic or national borders. And these effects exist not only for one or two generations, but for thousands of years. It is now recognized by scientists, natural researchers, climate activists and even politicians that such actions mean a crime against humanity, and a new word has been shaped to describe them – eco -agency.

Ecozid is another variant of murder or genocide, since it also includes killing, but at a planetary level. It can be defined as “illegal or willful actions that are committed with the knowledge that there would be severe and widespread and widespread and long -term damage to the environment caused by these actions”. In 2024, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa proposed that the ecozide is recognized as a crime by the International Criminal Court. They argued that it should be added as the fifth crime in the Rome statute together with genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. It is no coincidence that these three South Pacific nations would be the first to immerse yourself in the increase in sea level as a result of climate change.

Many countries already have laws against environmental destruction, but these are ineffective, since the governments are usually committed by a great eco -notis by eco -sizes. The catastrophic effects extend far beyond the borders. For this reason, an international law or a federal government is needed to hold it into account or dissolve it. The same logic applies to large multinational companies that are largely immune to national laws due to their spread and influence.

Alliances, contracts and conferences did not work. Perhaps the time has come to punish nations and leaders who are still irresponsible. We cannot allow managers and companies to be driven without a vision and material desire to remove “the world just like grasshoppers” in the words of Mahatma Gandhi. As Ronald Reagan said: “If you can't see them for the light, let them feel the heat.” Ecozid must be recognized as the worst crime against humanity.

– The writer is a retired IAS officer