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[Open Seminar Series] "The Thoughts of a Human Rights Sociologist on Climate-Ecological Crisis: The Silent Crime Ecocide" by Hyo-Je Cho (June 2nd)

2022-07-15
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Since 2022, People for Earth has been holding an 'Open seminar' where experts are invited to share stories with citizens. For the second time, on June 2nd, with Professor Hyo-Je Cho, the participants listened to a lecture titled “The Thoughts of a Human Rights Sociologist on Climate-Ecological Crisis: The Silent Crime Ecocide”.

Dr.Cho told the story from an anecdote that, in a very important resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council in the fall of 2008, climate change and new infectious diseases could become important human rights issues in the future.

Inspired by that resolution, the research that started was followed by 〈The End of the Carbon Society〉 in 2020, followed by 〈The Silent Crime Ecocide〉. This research is an attempt to analyze the climate-ecological crisis from the point of view of human rights and society.

Dr.Cho tried to show that human rights can play a role in overcoming the climate-ecological crisis, and also mentioned that he tried to analyze this from a historical and social perspective. From this point of view, he wanted to say that the human rights issue and the environmental issue of natural exploitation are not separate, but rather linked.

Lastly, Dr.Cho saw that the key to responding to climate and ecological crises lies in diversity and coexistence. Human rights violation and environmental degradation are two forms of domination that have a common origin in the socio-economic system. Therefore, it is necessary to have a social imagination that can grasp the two problems as a connected narrative structure. This appears as cultural diversity in society and as biodiversity in nature, and he presented that extreme violations of each appeared as genocide and ecocide, respectively.

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