The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
Imagine
if there was a United Natures of
all species! Bolivia
was the first country to pass a resolution which put the issue of Mother Earth
rights as an item on the UN agenda. The Framework Law on Mother Earth and
Integral Development for Living Well, in effect since Oct. 15, 2012, outlines
principles for making a shift from classic development models to an integral
model “in harmony and balance with nature, recovering and strengthening local
and ancestral knowledge and wisdom.” (1)
Bolivia’s
proposal for Rights for Mother Earth is therefore about tackling these
fundamental underlying issues. For centuries indigenous communities have warned
that if human communities are to remain part of the Earth community they must
behave as respectful members. We call our planet Pachamama, Mother Earth,
because we know we cannot live without her.
This
understanding is supported not only by ancient spiritual traditions but also by
contemporary science which continues to reveals the complex interdependence of
life on earth. These perspectives are coming together in what is known as
“Earth jurisprudence.”
Bolivia,
Ecuador and other Latin American countries already have begun the process of
defining such a development path. We use terms like “living well” to describe a
way of life that seeks not to live “better” and at the cost of others and
nature, but in harmony with all. The struggles of indigenous people and social
movements in Latin America have enabled this perspective to be enshrined in the
Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions.
So what would rights for nature look like?
One
of the most important implications is that it would enable legal systems to maintain vital
ecological balances by balancing human rights against the rights of other
members of the Earth community. Presently many environmentally harmful human
activities are completely lawful. Most legal systems define everything,
that is not a human being or a corporation, as property.
Just
as slave laws, which turned humans into property, entrenched an exploitative
relationship between the two, our legal systems have entrenched an exploitative
and inherently damaging relationship between ourselves and Earth. Even most
environmental laws do little more than regulate the rate at which environmental
destruction may take place.
If
legal systems recognized the rights of other-than-human beings (e.g. mountains,
rivers, forests and animals), courts and tribunals could deal with the
fundamental issues of environmental contamination rather than being bogged down
in the technical details of permitted pollutants and emissions.
For
example, a rights-based approach could evaluate whether the rights of humans to
clear tropical forests for beef ranching should trump the right of species in
those forests to continue to exist. Instead of devising ever more complex
schemes to authorize environmental damage and to trade in the right to pollute,
we would focus on how best to maintain the quality of the relationship between
ourselves and Earth.
In
1948, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed, it was a
declaration of hope into a post-war world. It had no legal basis as a document.
Sixty years on the declaration has been incorporated into the laws of many
countries and been the basis for the International Criminal Court. Facing a
crisis far worse than any world war, might it not be time for humanity to
launch a new declaration, one that defends our planet and its biodiversity from
ever-continuing extinction? (2)
The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
Presented by Bolivia for UN recognition - outlines some of the fundamental rights of Earth:
(2) Mother Earth is a unique, indivisible, self-regulating community of interrelated beings that sustains, contains and reproduces all beings.
(3) Each being is defined by its relationships as an integral part of Mother Earth.
(4) The inherent rights of Mother Earth are inalienable in that they arise from the same source as existence.
(5) Mother Earth and all beings are entitled to all the inherent rights recognized in this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as may be made between organic and inorganic beings, species, origin, use to human beings, or any other status.
(6) Just as human beings have human rights, all other beings also have rights which are specific to their species or kind and appropriate for their role and function within the communities within which they exist.
(7) The rights of each being are limited by the rights of other beings and any conflict between their rights must be resolved in a way that maintains the integrity, balance and health of Mother Earth.
The United Natures Movie
Film
director Peter Charles Downey has explored some of these themes, ideas and philosophies beautifully
in his documentary United
Natures. United Natures delves deeper into the philosophy
of permaculture and the Gaia theory and the human role within nature. Seeding
the vision of a new indigenous world culture and exploring “permaculture of the
inner landscape” and how our personal inner environments reflect on the outer
environment.
United
Natures delivers an understanding that a consciousness shift is what is needed
as much as a change of law, industrial practices and societal excesses. The
other vital topic explored in the film is the renewed consciousness of earth
rights. United Natures is also very much a self-reflective “green film”
with explorations into the hypocrite and Eco-dictatorship accusations that are
often levelled at environmentalists.
Sources
(2)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pablo-erick-solon-romero-oroza/why-even-a-successful-agr_b_406547.html
From Collective Evolution @ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/08/24/the-universal-declaration-of-the-rights-of-mother-earth/
For more information about Mother Earth see http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/search/label/gaia
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