This is an action aimed to reach 1 million votes of EU citizens for a new law proposal to end the mass destruction of our planet. This is called Ecocide. Please join the Initiative!
What is ECOCIDE?
Eco-cide derives from the Greek oikos meaning house or home and the Latin caederemeaning strike down, demolish, kill. It literally translates to killing our home.
End Ecocide in Europe is a grass-roots initiative aimed at protecting ecosystems by making their destruction a crime for which those responsible can be held accountable. This crime has a name: Ecocide. Watch the animation and vote today to end ecocide.
The law of ecocide has the potential to trigger the transformation to a sustainable low-carbon world as most of the major causes of emissions (deep sea drilling, fracking, oil spills, open coal mining, large-scale deforestation, etc) potentially cause ecocide and could become illegal when the initiative is successful.
The EU has the power to introduce such a law and when at least 1 million EU citizens support the proposal, EU policy-makers will be legally obliged to consider it. Vote online, spread the word, and get involved. Every vote counts. www.endecocide.eu
WHY WE NEED IT
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to act as one law to end different types of environmental destruction
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to hold decision makers directly liable
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to preserve and protect biodiversity
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to protect entire ecosystems, not just individual elements such as soil, air, fauna & flora
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to trigger the transformation to a green economy
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to honour our duty to future generations
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to contribute to a shift in values to give the earth its own rights
What To Do
Here are five easy steps you can take, that multiplied can create waves.
1. Try to find a
VIP, a celebrity that can speak out about End Ecocide If you need inspiration,
have a look at this list.
2. Make sure all of your friends, family, colleagues have signed. Each of us has a unique network whom only you can reach.
5. Find a
local Ecocide case on FB, blogs, articles, and ask the group to support the initiative and collect signatures.