Green Crime

Question 1

Primary green crimes

Answer 1

Direct result of the destruction and degradation of planets e.g air pollution from industrial carbon and greenhouse gas emissions

Question 2

Secondary green crimes

Answer 2

Involve breaking existing laws and regulations e.g the dumping of toxic wastes

Question 3

Rob White

Answer 3

He observed that countries cannot agree on what should constitute green crime aswell as international law being inadequate to enforce laws. Furthermore, governments are reluctant to rein in on green crime because they are too dependent on the income generated from them in the form of taxation

Question 4

Explaining green crimes: white

Answer 4

Green crime should be defined as deliberate harm to the natural environment and the creatures that live within it even if no law has technically been broken. He claims that nation states such as china and transnational corporations take an anthropocentric view of environmental harms - see them as a necessary part of human progress and essential in order to maintain materialist lifestyles

Question 5

Globalisation and green crimes

Answer 5

Points out that many of the threats to our ecosystems are manufactured risks and are the result of the massive demand for consumer goods and the the technology that underpins it