[P2P-F] Bolivia and Ecuador Grant Equal Rights to Nature

[Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis]

A very good comedian talking about the environment. His ideas are
provocative.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc511r_george-carlin-has-a-message-for-env_shortfilms




2011/12/13 Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>

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> http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/21/373273/bolivia-and-ecuador-equal-rights-to-nature-wild-law-climate-solution/
>
> Bolivia amended its constitution after pressure from its large indigenous
> population who places the environment and the earth deity, Pachamama, at
> the center of all life.
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights
>
> Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth
>
> Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social
> measures in South American nation
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_848966.html
>
> They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital
> cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water
> and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the
> right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.
>
> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/legal-rights-nature-bolivia/
>
> The first principle of Bolivia’s law — here translated into English<http://f.cl.ly/items/212y0r1R0W2k2F1M021G/Mother_Earth_Law.pdf> (.pdf)
> from the original Spanish<https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F44900268%2FLey-de-Derechos-de-la-Madre-Tierra-Estado-Plurinacional-de-Bolivia&ei=fqqsTZjSGs_dgQenpuTzBQ&usg=AFQjCNGdRDZ2--RoZgpBXoG9AxVzUGg77w&sig2=yO9oOfxJNEdAA7OQrUNaSw> —
> calls for human activities to “achieve dynamic balance with the cycles and
> processes inherent in Mother Earth,” with Mother Earth defined as “a
> unique, indivisible, self-regulating community of interrelated beings that
> sustains, contains and reproduces all beings.” A ministry of Mother Earth
> will be established, and an ombudsman appointed to hear disputes.
>
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Sincerely yours,

     Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis
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