Ecocide

Yes.

Echocide and omnicide.

It's omnicide.

It's killing everything.

That is, what happens when settlers cast themself as Israel and cast indigenous people as Canaanites.

Ecocide follows genocide, and the land pays, too.

Now, what often gets left out of this conversation is the ecological dimension.

The Joshua model is not just a theology of extermination, it is a theology of extraction.

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Each episode investigates a moment when human activity collided with the natural world and follows what happened next and who was left to deal with the fallout.

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Ecocide is a narrative podcast about environmental destruction, part environmental history, part stories still unfolding.

Each episode documents an ecological disaster, who caused it, who paid the price, and who fought back.

With a background in Wall Street and global finance, he now guides leaders through uncertainty and coaches them on the psychology of change.

Benjamin advises leadership at organizations including the United Nations Resilience Frontiers, Stop Ecocide International, and Horasis.

So I don't know if you wanna...

It's always kinda strange to be reduced to your bio, isn't it? [chuckles] I don't know if you wanna add anything to that about to let people know who you are.

Yeah.

I mean, so I'm, I'm no longer with Stop Ecocide, although I, I think it's a very good mission.

But, uh, yeah, there's a number of other organizations I advise.

But yeah, no, I think you hit the nail on the, on the head.

I think every single Palestinian is a l- is a, is a land rights defender, right? Because that's ultimately what this is about.

And, um, you know, I wrote a cha- a chapter for a book on the genocide called Ecocide in Gaza, and I interviewed a Bedouin farmer, um, for that book, and I remember he said to me, you know, "I will never leave my land because I love my land like I love my children." You know, and it, um, that, you know, the, the Pal- the Palestinians are their land, right? That is who they are.

Um, and that's why Israel has, um, absolutely obliterated Gaza, right? Because they know that it Pales- you know, that land without Palestinians isn't Palestine, you know? And so, um, yeah, there's, uh, it's, it, they are, and so yeah, I would agree with you.

I think it's like a huge gaping hole, Africa as well, you know? And so we have to sort of just bear all of that in mind, but still 124