Ecocide
The term ecocide is used in different contexts. Ecocide called:
- The extermination of a people through the ecological destruction of its natural resources, as happened for example with several indigenous peoples in the Brazilian rain forest (see genocide ). Creeping Ökozide can occur without the influence of foreign nations or powers also, if a population of long-term environmental trends and their own contribution to the destruction of ecology does not recognize and does not have spatial alternatives or ways to import a lack of resources.
- The forced abandonment of the cultural autonomy of a people through the ecological destruction of its cultural landscape (see ethnocide ).
- The sometimes fatal long-term effects of chemical weapons operations that may lead among other things to damage the genetic material, such as happened in Vietnam (see Agent Orange ).
- Caused by industrial civilization general environmental degradation, which is caused by a disturbance of the ecological balance due to massive pollution. The American evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond and biogeographer says our contemporary societies requires the destruction, should the ecological awareness lose the race against environmental degradation and resource destruction.