WESTRA, Laura. "Climate change exacerbates the condition of poor people everywhere. The increase in temperature permitted in the most recent COP meeting in Cancun’s – that is 4oC – encourages (and in fact guarantees) a situation that can be termed “ecocide” or “genocide”"

Professor Laura Westra (Professor Emerita (Philosophy), University of Windsor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Toronto, Canada) in “Faces of state terrorism” states (2012): “As well, there are millions of avoidable deaths globally, because of deprivations and lack of health care: “Whether a child dies from neocon bombs or bullets or from neocon-imposed deprivation, the result is the same ” (Polya 2011:2). Climate change exacerbates the condition of poor people everywhere. The increase in temperature permitted in the most recent COP meeting in Cancun’s – that is 4^oC – encourages (and in fact guarantees) a situation that can be termed “ecocide” or “genocide” , according to Bolivia’s president. Hence the ways of supporting wholesale harms, in both war and peace, using the might of the state and that of its alliances, within and without the UN, are multiple and not simply limited to the support of some South American dictatorship (Gareau 2004)” ((Laura Westra, “Faces of State Terrorism. Volume 42 of Studies in Critical Social Sciences”, BRILL, 2012, page 129; see also “Stop state terrorism”: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ).