Blog Archive for December 2022

  • Stopping Ecocide and Climate Catastrophe: A Critique of the Criminal Law

    In this short article Dr David Scott questions, from a penal abolitionist perspective, whether the criminal law can be effectively deployed to prevent climate catastrophe.  In so doing he questions the goals of influential pressure group Stop Ecocide International and highlights the importance of the recent book Ecocide by Professor David Whyte, which calls for ordinary people all around the world to directly challenge corporate power.

    15th December 2022