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by Maireid Sullivan | October 1, 2008 at 01:02 am
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Ecuador next week votes on giving legal rights to rivers, forests and air. Is this the end of damaging development? The world is watching–By Clare Kendall–The Guardian, Wednesday September 24 2008–
The South American republic of Ecuador will next week consider what many countries in the world would say is unthinkable. People will be asked to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador's tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans. If they vote yes - and polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are against - then an already approved bill of rights for nature will be introduced, and new laws will change the legal status of nature from being simply property to being a right-bearing entity.
The proposed bill states: "Natural communities and ecosystems possess the unalienable right to exist, flourish and evolve within Ecuador. Those rights shall be self-executing, and it shall be the duty and right of all Ecuadorian governments, communities, and individuals to enforce those rights."
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at 04:39 on October 1st, 2008
Maireid Sullivan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:17 on October 1st, 2008
Maireid Sullivan, I Love this!
They deserve a NOBEL PRISE for this. I mean it. This is what I always wanted to be in the UN charter of right, that Nature as a hole and as part as same and equal rights to Human life and Human Rights as well. Every living being, may it be Animal, Fish, Plant, Insect even Micro organism has a right to live and strive with in a set parameter equal to or exceeding Human Rights.
at 05:19 on October 1st, 2008
This comes close to the Rules that our Nordic ancestor had some 2000 years ago until they got overrun by Christianity.
at 06:55 on October 1st, 2008
Maireid Sullivan, I love this story. It's great stuff !
Obviously these Ecuadorians are so primitive they still believe the Earth is sacred, maybe even miraculous !! Imagine that ? How foolish of them ...
Hopefully Mr. Bush will get some special advisors in there double quick to straighten those poor souls out !!
at 08:16 on October 1st, 2008
Are not humans in Nature? Vegetarians will deserve this little problem, since their bean curd would be just as entitled as a BK broiler to the legal processes.
at 08:28 on October 1st, 2008
Maireid Sullivan, I like this story. It's good stuff. necer mind street cred - these politicians have got tree credibility so much better!
at 08:36 on October 1st, 2008
Wow - that's a really fascinating idea. I guess the test really is in the implementation if the bill is passed - and whether people stick to it.
at 09:35 on October 1st, 2008
Wow!
at 09:53 on October 1st, 2008
Maireid Sullivan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
This is awesome - great news
at 11:37 on October 1st, 2008
Maireid Sullivan, I like this story. It's good stuff. It certainly is a radical new idea. But do they have oil?
at 15:08 on October 1st, 2008
It is both radically far out and radically rooted in science. I don't know about the water and air part, but the plant kingdom shares a good amount of DNA code with the animal kingdom and animal rights are being recognized elsewhere so where do you draw the line? Intelligence? Seriously? Where is Congress on that scale?