Fwd: [P2P-F] Bolivia and Ecuador Grant Equal Rights to Nature

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From: "Dante-Gabryell Monson" <dante.monson@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2011 6:17 PM
Subject: [P2P-F] Bolivia and Ecuador Grant Equal Rights to Nature
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http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/21/373273/bolivia-and-ecuador-equal-rights-to-nature-wild-law-climate-solution/

Bolivia amended its constitution after pressure from its large indigenous population who places the environment and the earth deity, Pachamama, at the center of all life. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights

Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth

Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_848966.html

They 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.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/legal-rights-nature-bolivia/

The first principle of Bolivia's law — here translated into English (.pdf) from the original Spanish — calls for human activities to "achieve dynamic balance with the cycles and processes inherent in Mother Earth," with Mother Earth defined as "a unique, indivisible, self-regulating community of interrelated beings that sustains, contains and reproduces all beings." A ministry of Mother Earth will be established, and an ombudsman appointed to hear disputes.

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