A Bill of Rights for the Earth

The creation, ratification and implementation of a Bill of Rights for the Earth can insure our common future. To unite and teach the process of participatory democracy to the peoples of the earth: creating, ratifying and implementing responsible stewardship of the commons of our earth; its seeds, air, water and its sources, such as, soils, wetlands, aquifers, oceans, rivers, lakes, ground water and what goes into these resources. Bringing back our oceans from the brink of collapse is necessary for humanity to survive sixty years given the oceans will be without fish in forty years. Thinking globally and acting locally we gain the knowledge now verified by “The Theory of Everything” that we are all one, connected and interdependent with each other.
Our Common Healthy Future is the responsibility of each individual, community, village, region, nationality, tribal nation and nation state. Our Common Future depends on the sustained quality of the environment of our earth. It is time to take steps to create the legal framework that will ensure the commons of our earth are available for our seventh generation to live with the right to clean water, breathable air, and an atmosphere whole and in place. A Bill of Rights for the Earth is a beginning of a way for us to unite in the acknowledgment that our earth is one and we are all one with all creation in a web of life.
We have entered a time unprecedented in the history of humanity, a time in which changes are happening so fast, a time when opportunities to implement new ways of thinking and new ways of being open us to unlimited possibilities. It is time to begin to forge new legal structures and implement new public policies to unite us in our common future, insure our individual sovereignty and establish new methodologies that guarantee security.
A Bill of Rights for the Earth is a first step in a grassroots process to create a global constitution. The unification of the peoples of the earth in the common bond of being for the survival of our shared sustainable environment is an action whose time has come. These actions can be a process that ends all wars.
A major challenge has been that a self-supporting loop is created as poverty creates ecological disasters and a non-supporting earth leaves its people without wealth. Poverty is violence. Public policies that perpetuate poverty are unjust and need to be changed. Changes of such a magnitude have not before been in the best interest of those whose wealth has been made from the poverty of the many. It is now time for this to change. It would be better for all if these changes can take place in a planned nonviolent process. Being for the sustainable survival of our earth's resources is a way these nonviolent changes can bring about peace.
Methodologies for the ratification of a Bill of Rights for the Earth could include: Town Hall Meetings via radio, television and world wide web; Local study groups; Action councils; Economic conversion teams; Re-education centers; Earth corps reclamation teams; Mediation and Peace keeping teams. A project like www.BluePlanetProject.net is a good example.

© Copyright Theresa Marie K. Gandhi February 23, 2008
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