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Re:Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as a... by pimmen on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:36AM (#21741187)
The problem is that property laws are local or national, because it's assumed that I need physical access to your property to do anything. If I fire a rocket at your property from some other country, I would be violating all kinds of air space regulations or maybe even international treaties on weapons.

We now have a better understanding of the unintended, global consequences of small, national actions.

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Re:Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as a... by voldacar on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:38AM (#21749912)
Then it seems like the real need is for a better international enforcement mechanism. As cancerous as it is, maybe international copyright law could be an inspiration? I'm just highly skeptical of creating a whole new category of offense when our existing legal framework should already have ways of dealing with this kind of externality
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