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Thread #130348   Message #3061457
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
26-Dec-10 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: World's Richest People Get Richer
Subject: RE: BS: World's Richest People Get Richer
If you want to know how big corporations got to be so powerful and how they are trashing the planet for profit read Polly Higgins' book:

'Eradicating Ecocide' Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers)Ltd, 2010 (ISBN: 978-0-85683-275-8).

She believes that Ecocide should be made the fifth Crime Against Peace, along with Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Agression. At the moment the law regards a corporation as a 'fictional person' who has rights but few responsibilities - except making a profit. If Ecocide was made an international crime then CEOs, Directors etc. (i.e. actual people) could be tried for their crimes and, if found guilty, sent to prison.

Find out more by going to her website: www.thisisecocide.com.