Tree Huggers Rejoice! UN Treaty Will Give “Mother Earth” Same Rights as Humans…
UNITED NATIONS — Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country.
The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to “dominate and exploit” — to the point that the “well-being and existence of many beings” is now threatened.
The wording may yet evolve, but the general structure is meant to mirror Bolivia’s Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, which Bolivian President Evo Morales enacted in January.
That document speaks of the country’s natural resources as “blessings,” and grants the Earth a series of specific rights that include rights to life, water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities; and the right to be free from pollution.
It also establishes a Ministry of Mother Earth, and provides the planet with an ombudsman whose job is to hear nature’s complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state.
“If you want to have balance, and you think that the only (entities) who have rights are humans or companies, then how can you reach balance?” Pablo Salon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN, told Postmedia News. “But if you recognize that nature too has rights, and (if you provide) legal forms to protect and preserve those rights, then you can achieve balance.”
Great excuse to post the all-time classic “dirty hippies cry over dead trees” video:
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“Okay, Ma ! You have the right to remain silent. . .You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be held against you in the court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you? . . . Watch your head. . . .Sorry.”
Congrats UN…you now have the pagans on your side.
So if I step on an ant hill. Does that make me a War Criminal?
First step in the process of liberals attempting to “liberate” farm land?
“We’re not seizing your property Mr. Tempest. We’re liberating mother Earth from the tyranny of your food crops. Only grass will grow here now, wild and free.”
Bonkers
Well this is just a load of batshit insanity
That should calm the Islamists… an official UN decree declaring Animist-supremacism over Islam.
Defund the UN until we can get rid of this filthy organization completely- and this country damn well better…I’ve had my fill for decades now.
Gia is a serial killer responsible for the mass extinction of millions (perhaps billions) of species throughout history and these people want to give her rights?
Anytime you see the words Bolivia and mirror in the same article you need to realize there may be some synapses misfiring.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Romans 1:25
Throw the UN out of the US and defund it as Diamond Girl says. We have no need to be part of this organization that wastes money and facilitates corruption. If Bolivia wants to make their country a being with rights – go ahead – leave the rest of us alone.
If my backyard sues me because I didn’t give it the latest and greatest grass cut out there I’m going to be pissed ..
This is great! And once enacted, I am sure it will be used as a springboard to attempt to extort all sorts of goodies from the US and other developed nations as reparations for “crimes against Mother Gaia.”
This is all Cass Sunstien and Holdren who think trees should sue people and a smart boarder collie is worth more then a mentally challenged child.
I’m fuming right now, if it wasn’t so damn hot I would chop down a tree and burn it right now…
a very critical (& horrific) book I recommend for the sake of understanding what is going on today (including this UN Mother Earth stuff) is ex-UN Assistant Sec. General Robert Muller’s “New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality”…maybe libraries have it, or used copies for cheap….old book, urgent relevance
MORONS! GOD YAWEH gave man DOMINION over ALL creatures and the Earth!
Oh shit,does this mean we can’t tell people to go pound sand because that would be Earthal abuse?
whthfk says:
April 12, 2011 at 1:39 pm
If my backyard sues me because I didn’t give it the latest and greatest grass cut out there I’m going to be pissed ..
LMAO!
read this post and looked at my yard and now I know my ass is grass!
@whthfk: Maybe you can do it under “freedom of expression…”
Wow, if you don’t stand for something you really, really do fall for anything!
Don’t be fooled. This is nothing but a pathetic smokescreen to distract and shift responsibility from the catastrophic damage that Bolivian space garbage has long been doing to the sun’s corona. But it’s not going to work, Bolivia, we’re onto you. We may have to confiscate your worthless country to pay for what you’ve done to our lovely solar system.
Don’t even have a space program you say? Well that’s not what the Crystals have been telling me.
I mean, I like clean air and healthy forest as much as the next Bambi slaying hunter, but holey CRAP this is evil!
On the other hand, that should REALLY set the Isalmists heads exploding!
I just thought of something, looks to me like the Japanese have one hell of a law suit against the Earth with the quake and tsunami.
If the earth can sue it can BE sued.
Hehehe… Hahaha! Silly hippies.
That womern said “I think we are deeply crazy”. And she’s right.
@whthfk
Today I started receiving Earth Day spam so that probably accounts for the evil mood I’m in. I’ve decided to celebrate this year with a chainsaw, a sawmill, a fire, and a Civil War era oak.
That’s just great! Them bed bugs in NYC – home to United Nations – will be delighted.
I think that with Evo’s ‘New Era’ and end of Colonialism it would be a swell time to move the UN to Caracas or La Paz!
Hey, it was great, Kids! AMF!
Look up the Earth Charter Initiative championed by devout baha’i Maurice Strong.
It’s coming whether you like it or not. New World Order from all sides.
Fast-forward to January 2013:
The United States military today took an unprecedented step when it surrounded the United Nations compound and demanded that “the property be vacated within 72 hours”. Denouncements continue to flood in from all over the world.
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In other news, a world-wide arrest warrant has been issued for George Soros. Most nations are expected to ignore the call do to entangling investments by many different ‘Open Society’ groups, but the US government is expected to freeze assets within the hour, if they haven’t done so already.
US officials were unavailable for comment…..
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Can we counter sue the earth for the damage done in japan? There will come a time soon when these idiots will be swept away never to be seen again. Perhaps idiots is a bad term, greedy, petulant children would be better. Greed because the money is all they talk about, never the solution. Petulant because they never stop whining like a 5 year old who can’t get his way. I am tired of having my tax dollars fund this group of morons in NYC. Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
This kinda of whacko shit wouldn’t be as dangerous if we didn’t have a bloody fool like Obama as POTUS. Another reason this bum must be voted out in 2012.
I don’t suppose they cried over all the burnt weed they murdered, nor did they shed tears when they unmercifully ate those poor innocent mushrooms? Oh, the horror…the horror.
Ah, yes, the wise leadership of Evo Morales & Friends.
These guys believe that clean drinking water is a RIGHT, dammit!… and that it therefore just kind of, you know, magically appears out of your kitchen faucet.
Socialists are a danger to human life.
xavier says:
April 12, 2011 at 2:21 pm
That womern said “I think we are deeply crazy”. And she’s right.
@whthfk
Today I started receiving Earth Day spam so that probably accounts for the evil mood I’m in. I’ve decided to celebrate this year with a chainsaw, a sawmill, a fire, and a Civil War era oak.
I think I’m in love : ).
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Re: the vid…. there all crying over a dead tree, but there crushing all the crass and shrubs that are still alive…. jeeze thats pathetic.
I would have loved nothing more than to be in the woods with those hippies…and a chainsaw, gasoline and a Zippo.
I’ll give you something to scream about.
hey tree huggers. If you love them that much, I will give you special discounts turning those dead trees into beautiful heirloom bowls or whatever you want. Think of it as tree taxidermy. would love to make some money off of you loonies
Pete(Detroit) says:
‘I mean, I like clean air and healthy forest as much as the next Bambi slaying hunter, but holey CRAP this is evil!’
Man Pete, I am with you. I live in SOUTH Carolina and I have anger at the way our forests are being replaced with pulp wood plantations or second home developments but that video made me want to go out and fire up my chainsaw. Why do I get the impression that those weeping sensetives probably only ever go into the woods to meditate. Damnable idiocy there!
This has been promoted by Lynne Twist of http://www.pachamama.org , BFF of Van Jones, former Werner Ehrhard disciple, New Age insider.
And everything we “consume” comes from where? Outer Space?
That video is always a crowd pleaser.
I bet these cretins are Planned Parenthood supporters. In fact, they look eerily similar to the clinic “escorts” who accompany clients into the mills to protect them from the people who are on the sidewalk, outside the buffer zone of course, praying for them and offering help for the mothers and babies.
In their Gaia-given wisdom and intellectual superiority, they just know that the rock in the woods is a higher life form than a human baby.
Then again, how will they provide taxpayer-funded abortions for Mother Earth, trees, bugs, etc? It would be “immoral” to force any life form into motherhood, wouldn’t it?
Fucking libtards.
What a waste of space.
You cannot raise things to the ontological category of human beings, but you can degrade human beings to the category of things.
JWM
Ok, does this mean that the donkeys and camels don’t have to be luggage racks anymore? It really peeves me to see them abused. I mean I know they aren’t plants, but surely they should have rights too.
I am all about preserving nature, but giving it rights?
Is this why the Feds have purchased all of the western states?
Would it be considered cruel and unusual for me to cut down a tree now? Is it going to be ‘rape’ to stick a drill in Mother Earth and drill for oil? What is the status going to be for bear arms- will bears be able to keep them or will they be illegal in some cities?
Makes me want to fire up the chainsaw.
I NEVER get tired of seeing the “tree hippies” video. LoL. I always wonder if they feel like total morons every time they run across it on the net?
I just want to get my habds on whatever they are injecting themselves with or smoking…sounds like fun!!
Why, did it incorporate?
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Go ahead people, laugh now while you can.
This will be the reality within your lifetime. Gaia will have rights and you will lose yours.
You doubt that?
Go back 30- 40 years and ask your grandfather if he thought that Americans would ban smoking in bars. Go ask him if he could have imagined mandatory recycling programs in every city. See if he would envision billions of dollars spent to combat ‘Global Warming”.
Go ask him if the miracle cure for malaria, DDT, would be banned. See if he believes that entire forests and rivers will be placed off limits to humans because a snail lives there. Ask him if Alar would be banned from use on apples.
In short, ask anyone from the previous generation if the things we consider ‘normal’ would have been acceptable to them.
The Left works on a different time scale. The left knows that what sounds bat crap crazy today will sound perfectly reasonable to a future generation that has been exposed to decades of propaganda.
We are losing this fight because the other team is more dediciated and more organized, and they are working on a different time scale
Kaffee
http://www.simplemusingssimplemind.blogspot.com
Would have been great to see a big bear or a montain lion come running out and jump these idiots! Thank you, but nature can take care of itself. Oh, and BTW, God gave us this earth to have dominion over it. I think that allows us ot cut trees for shelter and fire….
hehehe.
That the best you can do on that drum homo?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@John Williams