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A UCL
spoke about the
for ecocide to be made illegal and said "the time is right" to use the
of international
law to protect our environment. He wants laws to hold governments and multi-national
accountable for their environmental damage. The Stop Ecocide Foundation said: "In most
ecocide is
to be a corporate crime." It added that ecocide involved "
, systematic or widespread destruction. It said: "We are probably talking about Amazon
on a huge scale, deep sea-bottom trawling or oil
."
