Green Crime - Globalisation

Question 1

Green Crime

Answer 1

Green crime - crime and other harm against the natural environment.
> only recently being taken serious.
> air pollution, water pollution, acid rain, fly-tipping, crime against species etc.
PRIMARY GREEN CRIME: crime that results from direct destruction - for example:
> illegal de-forestation.
> prosecution of endangered species, the ivory from tusks and horns from elephant and rhino is often illegally trafficked.
EVAL - different countries look at green crime differently and have different attitude towards the environment, therefore it is hard to tackle green crime.

Question 2

Rob White

Answer 2

whether green crime is really a crime depends on how you view it
> ‘anthropocentric’ - when economic development is prioritised more than environmental development
> ‘ecocentric’ - environment development is prioritised more than economic development
EXAMPLE - Bhopal, India, 1984 - an agricultural plant exploded releasing lethal toxic gases into the atmosphere - the explosion resulted in 3000 deaths and 20,000 serious disabilities.

Question 3

Ulrich Beck

Answer 3

green crime is another symptom of the ‘global risk society’.
> unlike natural disasters like flooding, today’s worries are our own making.
> Media technology has made us aware of the risks we face - e.g. climate change
> its effects are global rather than local.
> some in society say that climate change is not occurring and not that much of a risk as people present it to be.