Green Crime
- Created by: Lucy Reeve-Wing
- Created on: 18-11-12 18:33
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- Green Crime
- Secondary
- State violence against oppositional groups
- States condemn terrorism, but they have been prepared to resort to similar illegal methods themselves
- An example is when the french secret service blew up the greenpeace ship, killing one crew member
- The vessel was there in an attempt to prevent green crime
- Hazardous waste and organised crime
- Disposal of toxic waste from the chemical, nuclear and other industries is highly profitable
- Cause of the high costs of safe and legal disposal and so businesses may seek to dispose of such waste illegally
- The ocean floor has been a radioactive rubbish dump for decades
- Illegal waste disposal illustrates the problems of law enforcement in a globalised world
- State violence against oppositional groups
- Primary
- Crimes of deforestation
- One-fifth of the worlds tropical rainforest was destroyed between 1960-1990
- Destroying crops, causing illness and contaminating drinking water.
- The criminals include the state and those who profit from forest destruction
- Crimes of species decline and animal rights
- 50 species a day are becoming extinct
- There is trafficking in animals and animal parts
- Old crimes such as dog-fights and badger-baiting are increasing
- Crime of air pollution
- Burning fossil fuels from industry and transport adds 3 billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year.
- Carbon emissions are growing 2% per annum
- Potential criminals are governements, business and consumers
- Crimes of water pollution
- Half a million people lack access to clean drinking water
- 25million die annually from drinking contaminated water
- Criminals include businesses that dump toxic waste and governments that discharge untreated sewage into rivers and seas
- Crimes of deforestation
- Crimes that result directly from the destruction and degradation of the earths resources
- Primary
- Crimes of deforestation
- One-fifth of the worlds tropical rainforest was destroyed between 1960-1990
- Destroying crops, causing illness and contaminating drinking water.
- The criminals include the state and those who profit from forest destruction
- Crimes of species decline and animal rights
- 50 species a day are becoming extinct
- There is trafficking in animals and animal parts
- Old crimes such as dog-fights and badger-baiting are increasing
- Crime of air pollution
- Burning fossil fuels from industry and transport adds 3 billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year.
- Carbon emissions are growing 2% per annum
- Potential criminals are governements, business and consumers
- Crimes of water pollution
- Half a million people lack access to clean drinking water
- 25million die annually from drinking contaminated water
- Criminals include businesses that dump toxic waste and governments that discharge untreated sewage into rivers and seas
- Crimes of deforestation
- Primary
- Crime that grows out of the flouting of rules aimed at preventing or regulating environmental disasters
- Secondary
- State violence against oppositional groups
- States condemn terrorism, but they have been prepared to resort to similar illegal methods themselves
- An example is when the french secret service blew up the greenpeace ship, killing one crew member
- The vessel was there in an attempt to prevent green crime
- Hazardous waste and organised crime
- Disposal of toxic waste from the chemical, nuclear and other industries is highly profitable
- Cause of the high costs of safe and legal disposal and so businesses may seek to dispose of such waste illegally
- The ocean floor has been a radioactive rubbish dump for decades
- Illegal waste disposal illustrates the problems of law enforcement in a globalised world
- State violence against oppositional groups
- Secondary
- Secondary
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