Environmental destruction and crises such as climate change pose an existential threat to the Pacific Ocean world and by extension to the planet. The Pacific region in particular has been the target of nuclear testing and land- based mining along its mineral frontier that now extends into the seabed. Current international laws are proving inadequate to protect the planet. A law against ecocide, the destruction of ecosystems as a serious crime, has been put forward as the missing factor that can address this problem. Yet, ecocide does not exist in international law. Moreover ,environmental damage are often spatially diffused and temporally protracted, requiring new methods of detection and reconstruction. The workshop, convened by INTERPRT, an interdisciplinary project on ecocide in the Pacific brings together leading practitioners to examine some of the scientific, legal, and historical challenges of confronting the impunity of ecocide.
Confronting Ecocide workshop was part of The Oceanic exhibition’s public program.
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