Now a political party leader, Gina Miller has teamed up with other advocacy organizations to alert people to the UK’s alarming environmental degradation relative to the European Union.
The UK wouldn’t have to become “the dirty, ill, poor man of Europe,” she claimed, if there was a crime known as “ecocide,” which is defined as unlawful or wanton acts done knowing that there is a considerable likelihood of severe, widespread, or long-term damage to the environment.
The entrepreneur claimed that Brexit and stagnation in Britain’s major political parties had hindered the UK’s development of environmental legislation.
This occurs at the same time as news updated the group’s environmental crime regulation in February, allowing member states two years to incorporate it into national law, making the EU the first organization in the world to criminalize widespread environmental damage.
