In this episode of La Loupe, Valentin Ehkirch, journalist in the Climate section of L’Express, explains to us what the crime of “ecocide” is.
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Mathias Penguilly: At L’Express, the journalist who knows best when we talk about ecocide is Valentin Ehkirch from the Climate section. Valentin, “ecocide” sounds like “genocide”, the destruction of a people, or “fratricide”, the killing of one’s brother. Is it the same reasoning here?
Valentin Ehkirch: Yes, you are on the right track! Here, it is the destruction of the environment that is concerned, hence the prefix “eco”. But it’s a term that is difficult to define at the legal level and I’ll explain to you why…
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