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The rights of nature

By Gustavo Duch

At the recent World Conference of Peoples on Climate Change, held in Cochabamba ( Bolivia) spoke of a powerful community widely abused and battered, and were constant references to her messages of solidarity and support. They talked, of course, the planet Earth, Mother Nature or Pachamama, looking all the larger community of life known.

We know but we ignore it. The Earth is a living, now wounded. Undergoes a constant fever, if continues to progress, some conditions can generate irreversible. The air we breathe is becoming poorer in oxygen and thus, ill-fed, premature aging. Your arteries, the rivers are polluted sea-infested, which makes it less energy. The cells that form-plant and animal species, are at risk of disappearing. And the rhythm that requires one of these species, the human is so fast that, say the experts, in less than 20 years require a twin sister, a second planet to be able to continue offering and giving away everything that today we require drilling stroke, dragging nets on the seabed and poisoning their skin-thin layer of fertile land, with aggressive chemicals.

aware of this fact, more than 35,000 people gathered in Cochabamba (mostly rural, indigenous fishers, members of environmental organizations, women's, social movements, etc.) Knew how to agree and set the basis of a common strategy on climate change, unlike what happened in Copenhagen a few months ago. And so is reflected in the so-called Agreement of the People ( www.cmpcc.org ).

Among the proposals to agree on the initiative stands a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. Look. If we can deconstruct our anthropocentric view, we understand and embrace a biocentric approach (in the terminology that defines Eduardo Gudynas), where we add individual and collective rights of human beings-civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental - the inherent rights of that other being, nature. But, he said, our Western societies mainly have to make an effort to produce this change of register as we have spent many centuries considering nature as a wild space we have to master for under our control, turn it into a supposedly inexhaustible pantry for the enjoyment of human being. Here lies, in my view, one of the virtues of the statement is correct thinking on the basis of the current global crisis.

a Draft Declaration on the rights of nature and have a history. For the new Constitution of Ecuador, the Pachamama is "where it reproduces and makes life" and "entitled to respect fully their existence and the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes" (Article 72). From these premises, nature becomes the subject of rights itself, has value in itself, regardless of profit or you may want to use human beings and "any individual, community, village or nationality may require the public authority compliance with the laws of nature. " And here comes another of the initiatives of Cochabamba: the International Court of Justice Climate and Environment, which could make enforcement in those actions or omissions that violated the rights of nature.

As said Alberto Acosta, a constitution (or in this case, a statement) does not make a society, but a political project of living together to be put in place with the assistance assets of the company. The development and adoption of the Declaration supposed be erected, and this would be his second great virtue, as between East and a new ethics, to promote structural changes and promote the changes that need our global society. Without the ability to expose all the review highlights that would force the abandonment of extractive policies go drown in which many economies of the countries of South and suppliers of rich countries, including Ecuador also the case that, despite everything, continues to promote oil exploration in the Amazonian region, mining or agriculture nonsense dependent on agrochemicals. Although humans have the right to benefit the environment and natural resources that allow us a good living (excluding Indian concept also unnecessary luxuries), this right must be compatible with the sets of life. Are not acceptable if oil extraction threaten native communities, are not acceptable as agricultural techniques that kill ecosystems of any kind.

arise from the Andean countries proposed a vast processing capacity, which will surely generate many contradictions and tensions with the prevailing ideology of progress that only development associated with economic growth. It may even seem absurd, as absurd it seemed to the dominant groups emancipation of slaves or the extension of civil rights for African Americans, women and children.

Gustavo Duch Guillot