Simon McBurney: “After the Nuremburg trials, you had genocide to describe the horrors of the Second World War. Now there is ecocide.”

“After the Nuremberg trials, you had a neologism to describe the horrors of the second world war, which was genocide. Now there is another neologism, ecocide. [...] Stop Ecocide is the movement trying to make ecocide an international crime.”

By Simon McBurney for The Guardian, 29/06/2024

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