One day it struck me that the world would be a very different place if environmental crimes were treated in the same way as murders. So, why aren’t they? And should they be?
At the moment such crimes can, mistakenly, feel distant and abstract. If someone came into your flat and set fire to your furniture, stole your valuables, killed your pet, added poison to your water … what would you do? You’d be terrified. You’d go to the police. You might want revenge. You’d certainly want justice. It would be entirely obvious to you that a crime had been committed.
More like genocide or mass murder.
It’s the destruction of something a human can never create.
Unfortunately, genocide is much less punished than run-of-the-mill murder.
If you are “strong” enough to commit genocide, you are usually “strong” enough to reject punishment.
So you think nothing should be done?
(Because that’s the usual sentence for genocide)