Natural Rights: Part 3
In relation to natural rights, recognition of the inherent life-giving property of nature is the foundation, not only human life but of all life on the planet. Whereas disregard for nature has, and continues to have, a destructive impact on the very life that sustains human existence.
It is essential, that is if we wish humankind is to continue to exist on earth, that nature is fully acknowledged and respected as the nourisher of all Peoples on the Earth now, and in the future. Thus the rights of nature, as of the Earth itself, should be protected throughout the entire world.
It is also essential to promote the development of mutual life partnership between humankind and all of nature. It could be said that the Peoples of the Earth should, in what could described as the Charter of the Rights of Mother Earth, affirm their faith in the fundamental worth of life, and therefore be determined to promote the awareness of human survival on the overall health of Mother Earth leading to better standards of life for humankind itself.
The purpose of the Charter of the Rights of Mother Earth would be to encourage governments and Peoples throughout the world to pledged to achieve, in co-operation with Mother Nature, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of the life of the planet itself.
Such a Charter would encompass the notion that people, and certainly their organisations and institutions, keeping the principles associated with the Rights of Nature and indeed of Man constantly in mind. That we and our organisations and institutions shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance among the Peoples of the Earth.
To be continued:
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