According to the UN, the PLANET EARTH deserves 'human rights' status.
But, according to that same UN, WOMEN do not.
Nuke the UN from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
According to the UN, the PLANET EARTH deserves 'human rights' status.
But, according to that same UN, WOMEN do not.
Nuke the UN from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Send them the mother earth Uganda.
So, who will have standing to sue on behalf of Mother Earth?
Poor headline in my opinion. As I posted the other day on the thread about Bolivia creating this as law, and I wrote it was probably a test for the UN as they have been working on this for a number of years.
IOW the UN has been debating this for years. I don't agree they are preparing to debate something they already have in the debate mill.
Sheesh, I think I’ve had my fill of news for today. The whole world has gone mad!
The clear outcome of such an international law is not to elevate “mother earth” to human status, but to lower human beings so they function within oligarchies as the equivalent of wheat, concrete, oil, and lumber.
At the end of WW II the whole world was owned by basically nine countries. Now something like 130 additional countries have been created. The people of those countries unwrapped the gift of independence, not to find the freedoms they expected, but instead the famines, civil wars, and repressive governments their ancestors suffered under before colonialism. The General Assembly has become a promotion and perpetuation society for aspiring totalitarians.
HUMAN rights? An insult to the millions around the world that WORSHIP Our Mother the Earth.
I hope President Palin will give the UN everything it deserves - hopefully all in her first term.
Twilight Zone
An attempt to develop legal cause for international atrocities.
They will tolerate genocide and even omnicide for the sake of the person “Mother Earth”.
Mother Earth=Social Justice?
Earth worship is one thing, common sense is another.
So Japan can sue Mother Earth for the tsunami?
If she’s “equal” then the answer is “yes”.
I think what the lawyers at the UN really want is to sue on behalf of Mother Earth. But even though Mother Earth was hurt, you can make the check out to the lawyers representing her.
(Meanwhile the middle east is burning, Iran and North Korea are arming, Venezuela is threatening its neighbors......)
Mossberg will have the veto.
The chance of China coming under fire from eco-nuts is???
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BTW, was there any comment from Mother Earth??
Proposal by President Evo Morales Ayma of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, made to the General Assembly of the United Nations on 22 April 2009, the first International Mother Earth Day.
1. The right to life This means the right to exist, the right of every ecosystem, animal or vegetable species, snow-capped mountain, river or lake not to be eliminated or exterminated by irresponsible behaviour on the part of human beings. We humans must acknowledge that Mother Earth and other living beings also have the right to exist and that our rights end where we begin to cause the extinction or destruction of nature.
2. The right to the regeneration of biocapacity Mother Earth must be able to regenerate her biodiversity; neither human activity on planet Earth nor Earth’s resources are infinite. Development cannot be open-ended, there is a limit and that limit is the ability of the animal, vegetable and forest species, of water sources, of the very atmosphere to regenerate. If we human beings consume and, even worse, waste more than Mother Earth is capable of replacing or recreating then we are slowly killing our home, little by little we are choking our planet, all living beings and ourselves.
3. The right to a clean life Means the right of Mother Earth to a life free from pollution, because not only we humans have the right to live well, but also rivers, fish, animals, trees and the Earth itself have the right to live in a healthy environment, free from poison and pollution.
4. The right to harmony and balance with everyone and among everyone Mother Earth has a right to be recognized as a part of a system in which all living creatures are interdependent. This implies the right to live in harmony with human beings. There are millions of living species on the planet, but only we human beings have the awareness and ability to take command of our own destiny in order to promote harmony with nature.
But wait, there's more:
46. In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in rights. Numerous subjects who heretofore had no guaranteed rights now enjoy such rights. Similarly, inanimate beings have been endowed with rights because it was felt that they needed to be protected to the extent that they were of concern to human beings. There appears to be a conceptual change in the history of human rights. 30 Some outlooks are undergoing change in the face of evidence, including scientific evidence, with the idea that human beings have a symbiotic relationship with nature, gaining currency. 47. This is not something that has only just been realized. In 1949, with the advent of international human rights law, Aldo Leopold proposed a Land Ethic, arguing that the individual is part of a community and that this community is a Whole. His proposal sought to change human behaviour from that of conqueror of the land to a citizen of it, implying respect for the other beings that are part of that natural community. 31 In 1969, James Lovelock proposed the Gaia Hypothesis, which considered the Earth as a single organism in which all parts, including human beings, are almost as closely interrelated and as interdependent as the cells of the human body. 32 Similarly, the deep ecology movement, which has been promoted by Arne Naess since 1973, states that all human beings are constituent parts of one single natural system and are therefore interdependent with the other components. Thus, all natural things have the right to exist, regardless of their capacity for selfdetermination. 33 Deep ecology promotes a new integrating vision of the universe as a network of relations. 34 What is called spiritual ecology also proposes a closer relationship between nature and mankind. 35
Read the whole thing if you have the stomach...
i think i'll go outside and see how it likes urine...