Public support is crucial to gathering momentum for this simple, powerful change in the law. We must call on governments to “Support making ECOCIDE an international crime.”
The greater the awareness, the more people using the word ECOCIDE, the larger the movement of Earth Protectors, the safer small states will feel to keep taking this law forward, and the more governments around the world will see it’s time to make ECOCIDE a crime.
So - tell everyone! Talk about it in your networks and environmental groups, make it your mission to sign up your friends, your family, your colleagues, write to your elected representative…
A suggested text is below, but feel free to express in your own words.
Dear [elected representative ]
Support making ECOCIDE an international crime
Mass damage and destruction of ecosystems (ECOCIDE), committed over decades, has led to global climate and ecological crisis.
Treaties, agreements and civil lawsuits have all failed to prevent this.
It is time to change the rules.
Amending the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to include ECOCIDE as a CRIME - alongside genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – can provide a simple, effective deterrent for those in positions of responsibility, enforceable within existing criminal justice systems.
Please convey my request to the Minister of Justice, Minister of Environment/Climate Change, Minister of Foreign Affairs [or equivalents in your country] and the Prime Minister/President [as appropriate] for the government to publicly declare support for such an amendment, in the knowledge that many countries must stand together to put this law in place for the long-term protection of all life on Earth.
As your constituent, I look forward to your confirmation in writing that you have done this on my behalf.
Sincerely,
[your name]
[your full address - which you must include even if it is an email you are sending]