No. I think it would just fill up the jails with people who are mostly ignorant about the enviro-laws, but good citizens in all the other ways.
What there is a need for is enforcement of our existing laws.
This is a no-win question, because on the one hand you have companies like 3M, who spew their toxic waste all over and think nothing of it - and on the other hand, you have the ignorant Joe SixPack who tossed their plastic in with the glass recyclables or didn't recycle their cans. Both these people will be punished if the green laws are enforced, but one will come out with a harsher penalty and it won't be the billionaire company.
Yes, everyone wants and needs to protect the earth so it's easy to get this kind of thing going with a lot of support. But let's hold the people responsible who do most of the real damage. I don't think I need ot name names...
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No. I think it would just fill up the jails with people who are mostly ignorant about the enviro-laws, but good citizens in all the other ways.
What there is a need for is enforcement of our existing laws.
This is a no-win question, because on the one hand you have companies like 3M, who spew their toxic waste all over and think nothing of it - and on the other hand, you have the ignorant Joe SixPack who tossed their plastic in with the glass recyclables or didn't recycle their cans. Both these people will be punished if the green laws are enforced, but one will come out with a harsher penalty and it won't be the billionaire company.
Yes, everyone wants and needs to protect the earth so it's easy to get this kind of thing going with a lot of support. But let's hold the people responsible who do most of the real damage. I don't think I need ot name names...
Yes. In Australia Dr Rob White is one of the major academics in this area. His major topics within this approach are:
-researching transnational environmental crime,
-climate change and national/international security,
-environmental forensics,
-animals and green criminology,
and
-prosecution and sentencing in relation to environmental crime
http://www.aic.gov.au/en/events/seminars/2008/whit...
the psychology of people who go out of there way to consume/pollute etc or something else? If it's this, i think it's a good idea.... :)