Nisou Kitsune
Resident Anime Freak
The country, which has been pilloried by the US and Britain in the UN climate talks for demanding steep carbon emission cuts, will establish 11 new rights for nature. 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.
Controversially, it will also enshrine the right of nature "to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities".
This bill already has backing from Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, but it doesnt seem likely that any industrialized countries will take it up anytime soon. But this is a great step!!!!
You can read the entire bill in English here
Personally, a great my indigenous religions, paganism, and several other progressive religions already knew that Nature was more valuable than what one can get putting pieces on the market. It would be a blessed day when the world realizes that Nature has rights too.
Why is this in the Religious Debate? Well, tell me what, in your religious views, you think about this stance.