• DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Let me guess - it’s either a fine, or a set of rules that in the first place doesn’t even apply to those running the corporations that are actually ruining the planet (or have enough loopholes for them to get away through), either way, it’ll only be poor people who are impacted, as always.

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      Definitely won’t apply to corporations; just like how your neighbor can’t torture a cow but factory farms can torture ten thousand of them.

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    While damaging the environment is already a civil offence in most countries, recognition of ecocide elevates the most egregious cases to a crime – with accompanying penalties.

    The new Mexican bill looks to criminalise “any unlawful or wanton act committed with the knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment”.

    The definition seems aimed at corporations but it’s pretty vague. Performative. Nothing will come of it.