‘A powerful solution’: activists push to make ecocide an international crime

Movement aims to make the mass damage and destruction of ecosystems a prosecutable, international crime against peace

California winemaker Julia Jackson has long grasped the threats posed by the ongoing global climate change crisis, from more intense wildfires and hurricanes to rising sea levels. But for her, those ideas crossed over from the abstract to the tangible when her home was razed by the Kincade wildfire that devastated her native Sonoma county in 2019.

I lost everything - all my belongings," Jackson said. It shook me to my core."