Showing posts with label ht of Nature Bolivia Ecuador Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ht of Nature Bolivia Ecuador Turkey. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Right of Nature Bolivia Ecuador and Turkey

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 247-365

Rights of Nature - nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles.  

Ecuador

“Ecuador is the first country to recognize Rights of Nature in its Constitution.  A great first step for humanity towards a change of paradigm! Ecuador is home to the Galapagos Islands, Andean Mountains and Amazon rainforest as it is a geologically, ecologically and ethnically diverse country.

Ecuador rewrote its Constitution in 2007-2008 and it was ratified by referendum by the people of Ecuador in September 2008.
The new Ecuadorian Constitution includes a Chapter:  Rights for Nature. Rather than treating nature as property under the law, Rights for Nature articles acknowledge that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles.  And we – the people –  have the legal authority to enforce these rights on behalf of ecosystems.  The ecosystem itself can be named as the defendant.”

Bolivia

The Law of Mother Earth - this bill was passed on the 22nd April 2011 which was Earth Day

The law give nature legal rights, specifically the rights to life and regeneration, biodiversity, water, clean air, balance, and restoration. 

Bolivia’s law mandates a fundamental ecological reorientation of Bolivia’s economy and society, requiring all existing and future laws to adapt to the Mother Earth law and accept the ecological limits set by nature. It calls for public policy to be guided by Sumaj Kawsay or Vivir Bien (an indigenous concept meaning “living well,” or living in harmony with nature and people), rather than the current focus on producing more goods and stimulating consumption”

The Law of Mother Earth includes the following;
  • the right to maintain the integrity of life and natural processes
  • the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered
  • the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration
  • the right to pure water
  • the right to clean air
  • the right to balance, to be at equilibrium
  • the right to be free of toxic and radioactive pollution
  • the right to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities

In practical terms, the law requires the government 
  • to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; 
  • to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity;
  •  to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; 
  • to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; 
  • to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; 
  • to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and 
  • to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.


Turkey Is Now Debating An Ecological Change To Their Constitution.


As Turkey has been talking about making a new constitution, which is supposed to value the individual, then we should be talking about an ecological approach to it,