by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
“Ecocide” was the term coined to recognize environmental destruction as an act of war. Britain’s Jojo Mehta made headlines in alternative news recently after her speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos, where she stated that ecocide needs to become a punishable offense and included farming and fishing.
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Wait…that’s nuts.
This sounded too crazy. Maybe she was speaking off-the-cuff and exaggerated. So, I went to the Stop Ecocide website, and sure enough, they include a variety of farming and fishing practices in their definition of ecocide.
The American Professor Arthur W. Galston, who identified the defoliant effects of a chemical that later developed into Agent Orange first used the term “ecocide” in 1970 to describe what the US was doing in Vietnam. He called for the banning of ecocide, though he was calling for this in the context of war destruction.
Vietnam was the first state to codify ecocide in its domestic law in 1990, and given their history with napalm, this is understandable. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Russia and many former Soviet states codified ecocide in their domestic laws, too. Like Vietnam, however, the Soviet Union had a history of true environmental catastrophes. Kazakhstan has seen the poisoning and destruction of the Aral Sea, as well as many nuclear detonation tests. Uzbekistan is home to the infamous “black goo” base, where the Soviets dumped chemical weapons and radioactive wastes. These countries view ecocide in a totally different context than Westerners unhappy with certain farming practices.
Stop Ecocide was founded in 2017 by Scottish lawyer Polly Higgins and British environmental activist Jojo Mehta. These women have backgrounds in law and activism. They have no industrial background and know nothing about actual production. I wish we could write Stop Ecocide off as a ridiculous publicity stunt, but it’s no laughing matter. The designation of farming and fishing as ecocide, and then the criminalization of ecocide, is just one of many efforts designed to prevent average citizens from producing or procuring food.
The WEF is leading the charge against self-reliance.
The WEF has been coming up with various schemes to alter the lifestyles of average citizens for years in the name of saving the environment, whether these average citizens are willing or not. At this year’s summit, leaders urged international cooperation on climate change “even if it’s unpopular.”
We’ve talked about some of these efforts before. The globalist crowd has spent years demonizing meat-eating and promoting synthetic foods made from insects or cell cultures.
There are threats against the ownership of farmland.
We’ve also discussed how property values are being manipulated in favor of investors, not those who actually farm. This takes ownership of control out of the hands of the people who want to live and work on the land and puts it in the hands of people who are not necessarily interested in producing food.
Some press attention has been paid to the amount of farmland being bought up by foreign investors. In particular, Chinese holdings have increased fivefold in the past ten years, which has caused some concern. In general, however, the government does such a poor job of tracking foreign investment purchases that Americans don’t actually have a very clear picture of who owns what.
Americans did get lucky recently in that we narrowly avoided the New York Stock Exchange taking control of federal lands. On January 17, the NYSE withdrew its proposal to establish and list Natural Asset Companies (NAC). These would have pooled money from investors around the world to buy controlling rights to public and private land throughout the US. Naturally this would all be done in the name of sustainability.
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