--- title: Five Best: We Need an International Environmental Court description: We need an international environmental criminal court, can Facebook ever truly be a neutral platform and more. canonical: https://time.com/4797700/we-need-an-international-environmental-criminal-court/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-30T16:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:48.296Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Need an International Environmental Criminal Court og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4797700/we-need-an-international-environmental-criminal-court/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We Need an International Environmental Criminal Court twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We Need an International Environmental Criminal Court by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 30, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 30, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We need an international environmental criminal court.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/international-criminal-court-for-environment-by-phyllis-omido-2017-05) By Phyllis Omido in _Project Syndicate_ **2\.** [**Can Facebook ever truly be a neutral platform?**](https://psmag.com/news/how-facebook-sees-the-world) By Jared Keller in _Pacific Standard_ **3\.** [**We can’t afford to ignore the national security dimension of education.**](http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/334943-when-education-is-an-ignored-national-security-matter) By Mohamed Abdel-Kader in the _Hill_ **4\.** [**In the age of streaming, we may never know which pop star is the biggest in the world.**](https://qz.com/988478/we-no-longer-know-who-the-biggest-pop-star-in-the-world-is/) By Amy X. Wang in _Quartz_ **5\.** [**To take artificial intelligence to the next level, we need to figure out how to make machines curious.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607886/curiosity-may-be-vital-for-truly-smart-ai/) By Will Knight in _MIT Technology Review_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: We Need an International Environmental Court ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4797700/we-need-an-international-environmental-criminal-court/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4797700/we-need-an-international-environmental-criminal-court/"},"headline":"We Need an International Environmental Criminal Court","datePublished":"2017-05-30T16:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:48.296Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4797700/we-need-an-international-environmental-criminal-court/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Environment","Innovation","Education","Music","facebook","AI"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4797700/we-need-an-international-environmental-criminal-court/","name":"We Need an International Environmental Criminal Court"}}]}] ```