{"id":54720,"date":"2020-08-16T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54720"},"modified":"2020-08-16T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:26:45","slug":"the-criminology-of-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54720","title":{"rendered":"The Criminology of Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Criminology of Global Warming<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Pulp mill, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Some \u2013 like Exxon since\u00a01957<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 have been aware that the world is facing global warming that has all the signs to render\u00a0earth uninhabitable<\/a>. At least with United Nations\u2019\u00a0IPPC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0NASA<\/a>\u00a0reporting on global warming, others have realised that we also face an\u00a0unprecedented threat<\/a>. Potentially, all of this is an issue of\u00a0criminology<\/a>. Somewhat similar to biology and psychology, criminology is the science of crime and criminal behaviour.\u00a0Global warming<\/a>\u00a0can be seen from an environmental, geological, atmospheric, capitalist, etc. perspective, but it can also be seen as an issue of criminology.<\/p>\n

Like lawyers and judges, etc., criminologists also prefer tide and often somewhat legalistic definitions to work with. For them, global warming is simply defined as the rising of the earth\u2019s temperature. At the same time, climate change is seen as the inter-related effects of rising temperatures on our environment and on human beings.<\/p>\n

Criminology comes into play when global warming is caused by harmful behaviour that contributes to the problem. It also comes in when human, state or corporate actions prevent responses to\u00a0global warming<\/a>. At the centre of criminology is the idea that a corporation or someone can commit a wrong. In a second step, criminology stresses that these wrongs demand a response.<\/p>\n

One might simply argue that a crime is what the law defines as a crime. The\u00a0l\u2019id\u00e9e fixe<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0malum prohibitum<\/em>\u00a0is, for example, that something is not so much a crime because it is inherently wrong, but because the laws of a state prohibit it. This idea lets some off the hook \u2013 for example, those who perpetrated the Holocaust. Nazi Germany certainly did not have a law that states, if you kill communists, trade unionists, democrats, homosexuals, Gipsies, and Jews, you will be punished. Instead, the opposite was the case.\u00a0Auschwitz<\/a>\u00a0fulfilled every single regulation down to the German building code.<\/p>\n

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The Criminology of Global Warming Pulp mill, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Some \u2013 like Exxon since\u00a01957\u00a0\u2013 have been aware that the world is facing global warming that has all the signs to render\u00a0earth uninhabitable. At least with United Nations\u2019\u00a0IPPC\u00a0and\u00a0NASA\u00a0reporting on global warming, others have realised that we also face an\u00a0unprecedented threat. Potentially, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,5493,4390,369,435,440,30198,929,30197],"class_list":["post-54720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-exxon","tag-global-warming","tag-international-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-nadine-campbell","tag-nasa","tag-thomas-klikauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54721,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54720\/revisions\/54721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}