‘Senior managers will think very differently about environmental damage.’

Law of the land: Hilary Saunders on the Stop Ecocide campaign

'Ecocide... extensive damage or destruction of the natural world.' | Photo: Markus Spiske / Unsplash.

If you kill lots of people you might be charged with genocide and taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC). But if you cause serious harm to Earth, often there is no penalty whatsoever. This is why Bristol Area Meeting has sent a minute to Meeting for Sufferings, to request that Britain Yearly Meeting urgently initiates discussions with other faith leaders with a view to declaring interfaith support for the Stop Ecocide campaign.

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