Green Crime

Environmental/ Green crime:

Despite globalisation bringing countries together and more interconnected, when we think about it we all share the same world. That means that when one country commits a green crime, it has a detrimental impact on other countries without us even realising. 

Beck- The massive increase in productivity and technology have created new, manufactured risks. Many are global and involve risk to the environment and consequences for humanity.

Case studies

Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986: 

Testing, machinery, power surged causing an explosion causing a huge release of radiation.

Impacts

• Precise cause uncertain
• 95,000 deaths
• Development of…