Citation

Neira H, Russo LI, Subiabre B. Revista de Filosofia (Chile) 2019; 76: 127-148.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.4067/S0718-43602019000200127

PMID

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Abstract

Current human technical capacities may produce a world scale ecocide. It is convenient to give a theoretical foundation to the fact that ecocide must be considered a crime that affects the whole humanity. The concept of ecocide arises in the context of war theory and right. Since then, the concept relocates into common language and, recently, into environmental philosophy. Ecocide shares also some aspects of homicide and ecological suicide and, therefore, it is linked with the theory willing death and with that one of self exposition to death risk, not of an individual, but of humanity. © 2019 Universidad de Chile. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

Progress; Crime against humanity; Ecocide; Environmental suicide; War theory