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Newsletter September 2018 FOREST FRIENDS IRELAND NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2018 Issue 28 Forest Friends Ireland WE PLANT TREES … IN THIS ISSUE Summer’s gone …. Well, we’ve left Lughnasa behind and we Some elements of the Cross Border are moving through the Autumnal Equinox Project are already in place. The Centre for towards the great festival of Samháin, Forest Biodiversity is a project at the initial marking the end of the harvest and the stages. This issue summarises our progress beginning of Winter. The leaves are this season. changing colour and the days are beginning Saving Mother Earth to look just a little bit shorter but we still Carbon Offsets For Urban In this article John Haughton examines the have a lot of work to do so let’s jump right Bolivian model for the conservation of Mother Trees – Page 10 Earth as a desirable starting point based on a in to this season’s newsletter. We have a lot Urban trees improve air and water quality, of ground to cover. deep ecological perspective at the bedrock of reduce energy costs and improve human environmental conservation. health, and offer the benefit of storing Saving Mother Earth - Page 2 carbon. But in cities across the world, they Bolivia is further advanced than most with are disappearing. regard to adopting a model for saving Mother Earth and has now established laws You probably noticed the felling of trees in pertaining to the 'Law of Mother Earth'. your own locality and U.S. Forest Service scientists report that metropolitan areas in The Wake and Death of the U.S. are losing about 36 million trees Capitalism - Page 7 each year. A team of researchers from various academic institutions throughout Finland LYCS Zero Waste - Page 11 published a Global Sustainable We have a hard working Zero Waste team Development Report which is a sobering here in Dublin working hard on events in assessment of the planet’s future. 2018 who are part of the Zero Waste International Alliance. All rich Western countries have based their societies on an abundance of cheap energy, Draft constitutional Farenheit 11/9 page 12 which the scientists say, is no longer a guidelines for Forest Friends “ .. I have spent the better part of this year reality. constructing a film that will not only explain how Ireland branches - Page 17 the @#&% we ended up with Trump but also Projects Update - Page 8 help show us a way out …“ Forest Friends Ireland/Cáirde na Coille have prioritised three main projects. The " Neart " project is well underway. FOREST FRIENDS IRELAND | Issue 28 2 them may be commercialized, nor Article 6. (EXERCISE OF THE RIGHTS serve anyone's private property. OF THE MOTHER EARTH) . All Bolivians, to join the community of 6. Multiculturalism . The exercise of beings comprising Mother Earth, Saving the rights of Mother Earth requires the exercise rights under this Act, in a way recognition, recovery, respect, that is consistent with their individual Mother Earth protection, and dialogue of the and collective rights. diversity of feelings, values, by John Haughton knowledge, skills, practices, skills, The exercise of individual rights is transcendence, transformation, limited by the exercise of collective science, technology and standards, of rights in the living systems of Mother OBJECT AND PRINCIPLES all the cultures of the world who seek Earth. Any conflict of rights must be to live in harmony with nature. resolved in ways that do not Article 1. (SCOPE) . This Act is irreversibly affect the functionality of intended to recognize the rights of living system s. Mother Earth, and the obligations and MOTHER EARTH, DEFINITION duties of the Multinational State and RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH AND CHARACTER society to ensure respect for these Article 7. (RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH) rights. Article 3. (Mother Earth) . Mother I. Mother Earth has the following rights: Article 2. (PRINCIPLES) . The binding Earth is a dynamic living system principles that govern this law are: comprising an indivisible community of 1. To life: The right to maintain the all living systems and living organisms, integrity of living systems and natural 1. Harmony . Human activities, within interrelated, interdependent and processes that sustain them, and capacities the framework of plurality and complementary, which share a and conditions for regeneration. diversity, should achieve a dynamic common destiny. 2. To the diversity of life: It is the right to balance with the cycles and processes preservation of differentiation and variety inherent in Mother Earth. Mother Earth is considered sacred, from the worldviews of nations and of beings that make up Mother Earth, without being genetically altered or peasant indigenous peoples. 2. Collective Good . The interests of structurally modified in an artificial way, so society, within the framework of the Article 4. (LIVING SYSTEMS) . Living that their existence, functioning or future rights of Mother Earth, prevail in all potential would be threatened. human activities and any acquired systems are complex and dynamic right. communities of plants, animals, 3. To water: The right to preserve the microorganisms and other beings and functionality of the water cycle, its 3. Guarantee of the regeneration of their environment, where human existence in the quantity and quality Mother Earth . The state, at its various communities and the rest of nature needed to sustain living systems, and its levels, and society, in harmony with the interact as a functional unit under the protection from pollution for the reproduction of the life of Mother Earth and common interest, must ensure the influence of climatic, physiographic, all its components. and geological factors, as well as necessary conditions in order that the diverse living systems of Mother Earth production practices, Bolivian cultural may absorb damage, adapt to shocks, diversity, and the worldviews of 4. To clean air: The right to preserve the and regenerate without significantly nations, original indigenous peoples, quality and composition of air for sustaining altering their structural and functional and intercultural and Afro-Bolivian living systems and its protection from characteristics, recognizing that living communities. pollution, for the reproduction of the life of systems are limited in their ability to Mother Earth and all its components. regenerate, and that humans are Article 5. (LEGAL STATUS OF MOTHER EARTH) . For the purpose of 5. To equilibrium: The right to limited in their ability to undo their maintenance or restoration of the protecting and enforcing its rights, actions. interrelationship, interdependence, Mother Earth takes on the character of complementarities and functionality of the 4. Respect and defend the rights of collective public interest. Mother Earth components of Mother Earth in a balanced Mother Earth . The State and any and all its components, including way for the continuation of their cycles and individual or collective person must human communities, are entitled to all reproduction of their vital processes. respect, protect and guarantee the the inherent rights recognized in this 6. To restoration: The right to timely and rights of Mother Earth for the well- Law. The exercise of the rights of effective restoration of living systems Mother Earth will take into account the being of current and future affected by human activities directly or generations. specificities and particularities of its indirectly. various components. The rights under 5. No commercialism . Neither living this Act shall not limit the existence of 7. To pollution-free living: The right to the systems nor processes that sustain other rights of Mother Earth. preservation of any of Mother Earth's components from contamination, as well as 2 FOREST FRIENDS IRELAND | Issue 28 3 toxic and radioactive waste generated by DUTIES OF THE PEOPLE human activities. Article 9. (DUTIES OF THE PEOPLE) Bill Ottman has summarised the Bolivian 'Law of Mother Earth' as follows: The duties of natural persons and public or private legal entities: "The Law of Mother Earth (“Ley de STATE OBLIGATIONS AND Derechos de La Madre Tierra”) holds the SOCIETAL DUTIES 1. Uphold and respect the rights of Mother land as sacred and holds it as a living Earth. system with rights to be protected from exploitation, and creates 11 distinguished 2. Promote harmony with Mother Earth in rights for the environment. It was passed by Article 8. (OBLIGATIONS OF THE all areas of its relationship with other Bolivia’s Plurinational Legislative Assembly. PLURINATIONAL STATE). human communities and the rest of nature in living systems. This 10 article law is derived from the first The Plurinational State, at all levels and part of a longer draft bill, drafted and geographical areas and across all 3. Participate actively , individually or released by the Pact of Unity by November authorities and institutions, has the collectively, in generating proposals 2010. Can we please spread this law? following duties: designed to respect and defend the rights of Mother Earth. There has to be a way for the free market to 1. Develop public policies and systematic interoperate with reverence for this planet. actions of prevention, early warning, 4. Assume production practices and Period. protection, and precaution in order to consumer behaviour in harmony with the prevent human activities causing the rights of Mother Earth. In accordance with the philosophy of extinction of living populations, the Pachamama, it states, “She is sacred, fertile alteration of the cycles and processes that 5. Ensure the sustainable use of Mother and the source of life that feeds and cares ensure life, or the destruction of livelihoods, Earth's components. for all living beings in her womb. including cultural systems that are part of Mother Earth. 6. Report any act that violates the rights She is in permanent balance, harmony and of Mother Earth , living systems, and/or communication with the cosmos. She is 2. Develop balanced forms of production their components. comprised of all ecosystems and living and patterns of consumption to satisfy the beings, and their self-organisation.” needs of the Bolivian people to live well, 7.
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