Generational Genocide

In 2021 the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies released a statement, published on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), urging scholars in their field to recognize the catastrophic impact of climate change through the lens of genocide.  Statement. 

We agree with Rafael Lemkin, the dogged Polish prosecutor who first coined the term “genocide.” Genocide is a process, not an event. Likewise, climate collapse is a process.

Heating the Earth kills people. It’s no accident; it’s not climate change, it’s climate annihilation. Overheating the Earth is maintained by the older generation, while those who will suffer are mostly younger people. Every young person, in one way or another, will suffer. Changing the climate is an act of violence against the young, an act of generational genocide. Global climate criminals and the Carbon States they own/support are the primary cause of this violence.