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Legal Rights of the Natural World: Beyond Personhood - Natural Law Emerges As A Functional, Legal Right Of Earth And All Living Things/Nature - Basic Unalienable Right To Water, Equality, Life, Liberty, And Happiness Is Enshrined In Bill Of Rights As A Part Of Natural Law For Nature/Humans

Legal Rights of the Natural World: Beyond Personhood - Natural Law Emerges As A Functional, Legal Right Of Earth And All Living Things/Nature - Basic Unalienable Right To Water, Equality, Life, Liberty, And Happiness Is Enshrined In Bill Of Rights As A Part Of Natural Law For Nature/Humans

WHY ARE CORPORATIONS AND MANY PEOPLE WORKING TO DESTROY THE PLANET AND ALL LIFE ON IT, WHEN THAT IS A VIOLATION OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND OF NATURAL LAW? 


The Sneaky Politics of “Natural Law”
On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.”

The American Declaration of Independence drew on these theories when declaring that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” So, in turn, did the Bill of Rights."

In order for humanity, all living things and Nature is to enjoy this promised Natural Law that promotes more life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, there must be a world worth living in, with clean water, clean air and unpolluted ground, wouldn't you agree? 

How could any living thing enjoy the pursuit, much less the attainment of this life, liberty and happiness, if the air water and ground has been polluted, poisoned and/or all living things killed due to toxic poisons, chemicals and radiation from huge profit motivated, corrupt corporations, who pretend to have 'right's' that are superior to people and superior to Natural law? 


FASCISM IS A MERGER OF GOVERNMENT, MASS MEDIA AND CORPORATIONS, WHICH PROFIT FROM ABUSING, RAPING AND STEALING NATURAL RESOURCES SUCH AS LAND, WATER, AIR, TREES, ANIMALS AND PEOPLE

If corporations have the same or superior rights to people, living things and Nature, then the definition of that superiority is Fascism, especially if and when corporations control the government. 

How Mega Corporations Are Really In Control! The Revolving Door of CORPORATISM!

4 Companies Control 147 Mega Corporations That Own the Entire World!

How can a corporation be a 'person', if it's only motivation is to live forever and make short term profits, while denying all Natural Law, justice and rights to all other living things, Nature and human beings? 

The merger of government and huge corporations who now control the government with the 'pay to play' control mechanism is at the heart of Fascism, and explains how corporations violate Natural law, plus the Constitution/Bill Of Rights. 


NATURE, NOT MAN, IS THE RULER AND HAS ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY, VIA NATURAL LAW



What is natural law? 

By becoming a bearer of rights, nature is now being thrust into the murky realm of legal personhood. 
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The rights of nature represents necessary legal and cultural shifts in which we understand ourselves as part of nature, and not, as Colombia’s Constitutional Court explained, "a ruler of nature." (Photo: Jim Liestman/Flickr/cc)

What does it mean to be a person, legally? 

Aren’t people persons? Yes.

But, are only people persons? Most definitely not.

A human being is considered a "natural" person under the law, whereas certain other entities, including corporations and ships, are considered “legal” or “artificial” persons. Black’s Law Dictionary defines a legal person as an entity with “its own rights and duties.” 

What we find is that under the law, there are either persons capable of having rights, or property (things), “over which rights may be exercised.”

When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, women, indigenous peoples, and slaves were treated as property, without rights. 

Nature is still considered to be property under the law, but that is beginning to change, thanks to the Rights of Nature movement. 

In 2006, the first law recognizing legal rights of nature was adopted in Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania. It was the first such law not only in the United States, but in the world. Communities across ten states have since followed suit. 

In 2008, Ecuador enshrined legal rights of nature—or Pacha Mama—in its constitution. Bolivia now has a national law in place, as does Uganda.

Over the past several years, courts in India, Bangladesh, and Colombia have determined that rivers and other ecosystems possess legal rights. This includes a decision by Colombia’s Constitutional Court, which ruled that the Atrato River is a “subject of rights,” including rights to “protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration.”

This movement to recognize rights of nature follows decades of environmental laws which treat nature as property, and thus as right-less under the law. Treating ecosystems as property, environmental laws have historically regulated the use or exploitation of the natural world, such as laws which authorize fracking, drilling, and other uses of nature. 

The consequences are proving catastrophic, including the bleaching and die-off of the world’s coral reefs, species extinction levels well beyond natural background rates, and, of course, an accelerating climate crisis.

But a shift is underway to transform nature from being right-less property to bearing rights itself, in what the Colombia court described as a necessary “step forward in jurisprudence.” 

Yet, by becoming a bearer of rights, nature is now being thrust into the murky realm of legal personhood. 

For example, since 2014, New Zealand’s Parliament has codified several landmark legal settlements between indigenous peoples and the national government, which establish that the Whanganui River and other ecosystems have rights, as well as the “powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.”

Then, in 2017, the State of Uttarakhand’s high court in northern India ruled the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers are “legal persons” with “all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person.” The rivers are suffering significant degradation from pollution, industry, and other human activity.

Together, these represent important developments in the movement to secure legal rights of the natural world.

However, in its appeal of the decision to the India Supreme Court, the state government asks what happens if the river floods and someone dies, can state officials – named “in loco parentis” (effectively as guardians of the rivers) – be held responsible?

Can we hold a river liable for flooding? Or the climate accountable for rising ocean temperatures? The answer is “no.” So, does that mean rivers or other ecosystems are unable to possess rights? The answer again is “no.”

Legal personhood is a doctrine which arose to address human rights and responsibilities. 

Ecosystems are not human, and they certainly don’t bear human responsibilities. Rather, nature requires its own unique rights that recognize its needs and characteristics.

As there is growing agreement among lawmakers and courts across the globe that it is time to recognize nature as possessing rights, legal systems need to evolve as well. This means moving beyond legal personhood.

The future will recognize the rights of ecosystems. As it does, a new framework is needed in which legal and judicial systems are equipped to properly implement and enforce the rights that nature needs to be healthy and thrive. This new framework - legal naturehood – would focus on upholding the legal rights of nature, such as those found in Ecuador’s Constitution, including rights to exist, regenerate, evolve, and be restored. Implementation means ensuring human activities do not violate the rights of nature, and that our actions become consistent with those rights. 

For instance, to implement the Colombia ruling recognizing rights of the Atrato River, the court instructed the government to work with the indigenous peoples in the river basin to restore the river and realize the promise that legal rights afford. 

The rights of nature represents necessary legal and cultural shifts in which we understand ourselves as part of nature, and not, as Colombia’s Constitutional Court explained, “a ruler of nature.”

Much like in Galileo’s time in which we were forced to accept that the sun does not revolve around the earth, today we must realize that the natural world does not revolve around us. In this fiftieth anniversary year of the moon landing, perhaps it is time that we once again reconsider our place in the universe.

Mari Margil is director of the International Center for the Rights of Nature, a project of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a public interest law firm that has assisted dozens of U.S. municipalities, as well as non-governmental organizations in different countries, to develop laws that recognize rights of nature.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/26/legal-rights-natural-world-beyond-personhood

FRESH DRINKABLE WATER IS LIFE, SO WHY ARE CORPORATIONS KILLING ALL OF THE SOURCES OF FRESH DRINKING WATER? 



We pump so much water out of the ground that we are killing our rivers – Life Unscripted
In the new analysis, de Graaf and her colleagues found that 15 to 21 percent of watersheds that pump groundwater are already past this threshold (about half of all watersheds worldwide are pumped). As climate change exacerbates droughts in many parts of the world, the stresses on groundwater—and by extension, on rivers and streams—is likely to get much, much worse, they say.

Their predictions might be conservative. As a baseline, they used the global water demand in 2010 and spun their climate model forward to see how stresses on groundwater systems might develop. But as populations swell and the demand for food rises, those stresses could increase for reasons other than climate change, speeding along the extraction from underground water sources.

But the effects of overpumping groundwater take years, if not decades, to become visible. Changes in rain have immediate, obvious effects on river flow, explains Gretchen Miller, a hydrologist and engineer at Texas AM University: When it pours, rivers often rage. But groundwater is hidden: changes take much longer to come to light, and don’t always manifest in the place where the pumping occurs. That makes aquifer management issues extra challenging, and only a small fraction of watersheds have plans in place to address the looming problems.

In the meantime, rivers and streams are the “canary in the coal mine,” says Richter. “They’re the signal that says we’re using water in an unsustainable fashion, we need to take a hard look at what we’re doing.”

CORPORATIONS ARE PRIVATIZING AND POLLUTING FRESH DRINKING WATER ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Water is life. Without fresh, clean, pure drinking water there is no more life. Period. 

Natural law states that no one can own the water, land, oceans, trees or animals. 


Privatizing or owning water is a violation of Natural Law. 

Polluting fresh drinking water is a violation of Natural Law. 

Go deeper

Water Wars, Water Depletion/Pollution Is Growing Global Threat, Corporations Privatizing Public Commons Water, Carbon And Nuclear Fuel Energy Corps Water Pollution Cover Ups, Stealing Water For Profits and Power - Debunking Trump's Clean Coal Hormesis Theory


RIVER FLOWS ARE REDUCING GLOBALLY AS GROUNDWATER DISAPPEARS DUE TO EXCESSIVE USE


River Flows Are Falling Worldwide as Groundwater Is Depleted – Bloomberg
Another slow-motion, man-made environmental disaster has been discovered, and it’s underneath your feet.

About 70% of the water pumped out of underground aquifers worldwide is used for agriculture while much of the remainder quenches the thirst of cities. As industrial development spreads at a speedy clip, the rate at which those critical reservoirs are emptied is far outpacing the rate at which they are naturally replenished.

DISAPPEARING FOG, RAIN, SNOW AND GROUNDWATER; WHY IS HUMANITY CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT FRESH, CLEAN DRINKING WATER? 


Disappearing Fog, Rain, Snow And Groundwater - Humanity Is Creating A World Without Fresh Clean, Pure, Drinkable Water, Due To Trumpian Support Of Fossil Fuel, Chemical And Nuclear Monopolies - New Poll Shows Americans Lead the Developed World in Climate Change Denial

A MAJOR SOURCE OF FRESH DRINKING WATER IS DISAPPEARING AS GLACIERS DISAPPEAR ALL AROUND THE WORLD, AND THEY ALSO RECHARGE THE GROUNDWATER


When glaciers disappear, what happens next? 

Glaciers are a major source of fresh, clean drinking water, and they also serve to recharge ground water. As glaciers disappear, so the rivers and ground water will also disappear. 

Trump Chinese Conspiracy And Fossil Fuel Hormesis Theory Debunked - Accelerating Land Based Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt, Land Based Antarctic Glaciers Receding Faster, Sea Levels Rise Accelerating, Melt Rate Accelerating

Glaciers Receding Globally, 150 Cubic Miles of Ice Being Lost Each Year, 4.3 Trillion Tons Of Ice Melted In Just Last 8 Years - Sea Levels Rising And Earth Rotation Changing As A Result - Iceland Held Funeral For First Glacier Lost To Human Caused Global Warming And Climate Change Effects

2019 Report On Retreat Of Glaciers Globally Since 1850 - Little Ice Age Effect - Glacier Mass Balance - Negative Effects Of Glacier Retreat - Increased Risk Of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, Major Sea Level Rise - Global Glacier Retreats Are Evidence Of Human Caused Global Warming

DAMS DO NOT HOLD ENOUGH WATER TO MAKE UP FOR MEGA DROUGHTS, WHICH HAPPEN REGULARLY IN GEOLOGICAL HISTORY

Dams violate Natural Law. 

They cannot hold enough water to get through the mega droughts that happen regularly. 

All dams will eventually fill up with silt, and make them a lead albatross which boost the flooding risk, rather than being an asset. 


Go deeper

Mega Drought Evidence; USA And Other Countries - California, Oregon, Washington Regularly Suffer From 100 - 300 Year Megadrought Periods According To Geological Records; When Will The Next Megadrought Occur? NOAA National And International Drought Information
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/08/mega-drought-evidence-usa-and-other.html

NUCLEAR AND FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES ARE POISONING THE FEW FRESH WATER DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES THAT REMAIN

All nuclear facilities produce radioactive emissions that end up in the air, water and ground. Contaminated drinking water is just one of the legacies of the nuclear industry. 

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170 Million People (Or More) In US Are Drinking Radioactive Radium And Tritium Contaminated Water; Interactive Map - How To Remove Radioactive Tritium From Water; Four Methods And Technologies Illustrated

Radioactive 'Death' River In Japan; 430,000 Bq per Kg From Fukushima Cesium in River Bottom Sediment, Ends Up In Pacific Ocean, 9-10 micro Sv/h Dangerous Mud Is Highly Radioactive In Motomiya city, Fukushima Province

Hanford; Lethal And Leaking Into Columbia River; A Race To Armageddon? 60 Minutes - Hanford Released 1-8 Billion Curies Radioactive Iodine So Far, Human And Salmon, Oyster, Animal Negative Health Effects Ruthenium, Cerium, Plutonium, Strontium Radioactive Heavy Metal Poisons



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Fukushima; 50 Cubic Miles Of Radioactive Heavy Metal Poison Contaminated Water Is Pouring Into Pacific Each Year From China Syndrome Corium 100 Ton Lava Blobs At Broken Open Reactors, Contaminated Rivers, Radioactive Waste Burning Incinerators, And Dumping That Ash Into Rivers

CHEMICAL COMPANIES DUMP MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF TOXIC CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS INTO FRESH CLEAN DRINKING WATER



Go deeper

Erin Brockovich Reports That Cancer Causing Chemical Discovered In Drinking Water Of 200 Million Americans; Report Exposes Companies That Dumped 206 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Into U.S. Waterways

FRESH CLEAN DRINKING WATER IS CONTAMINATED WITH TOXIC DIS-EASE AND CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS ON PURPOSE 



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FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES DUMP MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF TOXIC CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS INTO FRESH CLEAN DRINKING WATER


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Water - Why Coal, Gas, Nuclear And Oil Fired Power Plants Are Dead Enders; Does Wind Power Kill Too Many Birds? Why Coal/Nuclear Jobs Are Not Coming Back, No Matter How Hard President Trump Tries With Corporate Entitlements/Welfare


FRACKING COMPANIES POLLUTE AND DESTROY FRESH CLEAN AIR, GROUNDWATER AND DRINKING WATER




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Frack That! Drill Baby Drill! Earthquake Causing, Toxic Sinkholes of Stupid, Empires Of Corrupted Radioactive Fracking Idiocracy; Natural Gas (LNG); More Global Warming Methane Than Dirty Coal, Gas Industry Covering It Up, Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water; Debunking LNG Hormesis Theory


MUSIC/ART ACTIVISM


Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
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