[Carry_Okie]

The Earth Charter is a legal document delineating your rights as a global citizen to be co-equal to plants and animals. It is founded in principles of Deep Ecology, a philosophy totally at odds with reality and contradictory to itself.

That global citizenship is to supercede your national citizenship. That's why we should care.

[KC Burke]

.....but its for the Chil'en....< /deep gagging sarcasm >

[DugwayDuke]

"It is founded in principles of Deep Ecology, a philosophy totally at odds with reality and contradictory to itself."

Because it is ultimately based upon Marxist economic theory. This push for sustainable development is the Marxist response to the triumph of capitalism. Marxist theory holds that the value of an item is the sum of the value of the things used to make it. Under this theory, the capitalists would extract more and more value from the masses (profit) ultimately leading to the revolution when the masses could no longer subsist on their wages. But, how to explain how, under capitalism, profits and living standards soared?

The Marxists claim that capitalism was able to pull this off by extracting excess value from the environment. Only by despoiling the environment was capitalism able to avoid the predicted revolution. Consequently, Marxist theorists believe that by limiting access to the environment, they can force the revolution. Hence, the takeover of the environmentalist movement by Marxists and the advancement of concepts like deep ecology.