ABSTRACT
The field of green criminology has grown rapidly in recent years in response to deteriorating environmental conditions. The demise of plant and animal species through both legal and illegal means, the growth in human populations, and the shrinking of natural resources (such as drinking water) and non-renewable resources (such as oil and gas), all add up to enormous pressures on the environment generally. With biodiversity under threat, global resilience to the impacts of climate change is thereby reduced. Yet, the commodification of nature ensures that economic value is, ironically, best realized in conditions of advancing scarcity. For some, environmental degradation and destruction is profitable.
