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how's this law going to work though ? are you going to fine corporations that destroy the world or are you going to jail people who litter ?
If you read the article, or the draft, you'll see that this is definitely not aimed at someone who litters, in fact reversable acts like littering are explicitely excluded. If you were trying to prosecute a private person who litters in the usual sense, you absolutely could not do it with this bill.
Definition of ecocide from the draft:
"When an environmental criminal offence causes severe and either widespread or longterm or irreversible damage to the quality of air, the quality of soil or the quality of water, or to biodiversity, ecosystems services and functions, animals or plants, this should be considered a crime of particular gravity, and sanctioned as such in accordance with the legal systems of the Member States, covering ecocide, for which the United Nations are currently working on an official international definition. (...)
"Long-term” means damage which is irreversible, or which cannot be redressed through natural recovery within a reasonable period of time."
This thing is aimed at companies, not at any private person. Otherwise one of the proposed consequences to ecocide wouldn't make much sense either:
"Financial sanctions worth up to 10% of worldwide turnover for companies over three years."
If you ask yourself: But how is is going to work? May I propose you look it up? It usually beats imaginang a worst case scenario and then just posting that.