Climate Conversations - Turning environmental destruction into a crime against peace LONDON (AlertNet) - Criminalising 'ecocide' - the destruction of ecosystems - is an idea that "just has to come," says David Hart, an environmental lawyer and advocate of 'wild law'. "[Ecocide] is turning something which humans as a whole regard as an obvious crime into something that is internationally recognised," he said in an interview with AlertNet at an event held in London by Net Impact recently. At the the event, environmental lawyer Polly Higgins outlined the proposed law of ecocide, which she says should be recognised by the...