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Altar-ed Earth
Exploring the intersection between conflict and nature
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This blog attempts to both explore and map the history and very current issue of environmental warfare and ecocide. It hopes to expose governmental and media accountability issues, whilst exploring social and ecological processes and consequences. Whilst evidencing cases of environmental warfare is the core focus of the blog, we also explore wider eco-political issues across the globe.
Definitions
According to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, Environmental warfare consists of 'deliberate destruction of the environment.' It can include forest defoliation, pollution, craterization of fields, destruction and diversion of water sources, among other impacts. The goal of environmental warfare is 'to deny the enemy cover, food and the life-support of the countryside, thus making [attack] more difficult [...]'.
According to the Stop Ecocide Foundation's Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, Ecocide means 'unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts',
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Altar-ed Earth draws on the distinctly different yet coexisting relationships between human societies and Earth: a journey from treating nature as our mother and a religious entity to be revered (altar), or sometimes even feared, to treating it as an extractable resource to be used and polluted (altered). This research explores the extremes of this spectrum, how we got there, and what it means for society and the planet.
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