Topic: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
5. What is ecocide? Examine the implications of making it a crime on environmental protection and corporate accountability. (250 words)
Difficulty level: Tough
Reference: The Hindu
Why the question:
The article explores the international efforts to criminalize ecocide, raising important questions about its potential impact on environmental conservation and corporate responsibility. This necessitates an analysis of the global campaign for ecocide as a crime.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about ecocide as a criminal offense and its potential repercussions on safeguarding the environment and holding corporations accountable.
Directive:
Examine – When asked to ‘Examine’, we must investigate the topic (content words) in detail, inspect it, investigate it and establish the key facts and issues related to the topic in question. While doing so we should explain why these facts and issues are important and their implications.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Provide context by explaining the concept of ecocide.
Body:
First, write about the Impact on Environmental Protection – how making ecocide a crime can contribute to better environmental protection, potential deterrent effect on activities harmful to the environment etc.
Next, write about the implications of ecocide as a crime for corporate accountability Discuss how it might hold corporations responsible for environmental damage caused by their activities.
Next, write about the downside to ecocide.
Conclusion:
Conclude by writing a balanced opinion on ecocide.
