'Mother Earth' to be given same rights as humans under UN plan

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kpete  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 06:11 PM
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'Mother Earth' to be given same rights as humans under UN plan   Updated at 8:13 PM
   
'Mother Earth' to be given same rights as humans under UN plan
By CATHERINE EADE
Last updated at 9:41 PM on 12th April 2011


Treaty: Bolivian President Evo Morales wants the UN to recognize the Earth as a living entity
Bolivia is drawing up a draft UN treaty which would give Mother Earth the same rights as humans, including the right to life, to pure water and clean air.

The South American country wants the UN to recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to 'dominate and exploit'.

It aims to establish 11 new rights for nature which 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.

Bolivia's large indigenous population is ruled by Latin America's first indigenous president Evo Morales, who was elected in 2006.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376244/South-A...

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stellanoir  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 06:14 PM
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1. it's long overdue
   
& phew

Yeah just wait until you can't harvest that pot plant. It has a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Cleita  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 06:15 PM
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2. It's about time the rights of our planet are recognized.
   
She isn't here just to be exploited by the likes of BP and all the other mega-corporations exploiting her resources and leaving shit behind.

You breathe her oxygen, you use fossil fuels and pollute her air, you breathe out co2 causing her temperature to go up, you urinate and defecate polluting the groundwater.

Tons of crazy in that thread.

[true_blood]

You can take the UN and tell them to talk a walk.

[LC EFA]

Next time I'm pissin' on a tree out in the outback - rest assured I'll be thinking of the UN.

[BEG]

So the earth should have human rights but an unborn baby has none.

[DefiantSix]

So the earth should have human rights but an unborn baby has none.

Good to know you can keep up with their "logic", BEG.  I have the hardest time...

[Karin]

Couple of dissenters against the moonbattery, and they were completely ignored. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I think I'll hit the driving range during lunch, and take the biggest divots possible.  Wouldn't that be classified as assault against "mother earth"?  Should I have to be worried about the dudes in the blue helmets coming after me?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

BREAKING: Japan to sue mother for repeated and sustained child abuse.

Somalia joins suit alleging neglect.

[thelaughingman]

Can we dropkick the UN out of the U.S.?  Please?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Can we dropkick the UN out of the U.S.?  Please?

Did you know that Turtle Bay, NY, where the UN currently sits, used to be a meat processing facility.

I think it's safe to say they never stopped cranking out the baloney.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Typical UN 'Group of 77' hi-jinx.  I sure hope we end up with Obama out and the Democrats a minority in the Senate before any actual treaty worms its way out of this.