{"id":20737,"date":"2024-04-02T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20737"},"modified":"2024-04-02T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:57:38","slug":"gaia-cult-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/04\/02\/gaia-cult-goes-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaia Cult Goes Global"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Many countries<\/a> and localities<\/a>, including localities in the United States<\/a>, are starting to recognize \u201cNature Rights<\/a>\u201d of Mother Nature and that Gaia\u2019s rights can trump your<\/em> rights. However, this is a global<\/em> movement with legal work being done towards that end at the United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[In February, there were] preliminary negotiations for the UN environment assembly in Nairobi [\u2026], when government representatives were asked to consider a draft resolution by Bolivia on \u2018living well in balance and harmony with Mother Earth and Mother Earth centric actions.\u2019 This included a passage on the rights of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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     And no, this isn\u2019t anything new.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe UN general assembly adopted resolutions recognising the rights of Mother Earth or nature at Rio+20 in 2012 and in the convention on biodiversity in 2022. Altogether, there have been 14 UN general assembly resolutions on this subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgust\u00edn Grijalva, a former supreme court judge in Ecuador who issued a pioneering judgment on the rights of the Los Cedros forest, said the UK dismissal was disrespectful. \u2018It is completely disrespectful to rule out in such terms the proposal of Bolivia and other countries of the UN system where it is supposed that government delegates work at least to hear, dialogue and debate what is the best for humanity and nature.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     And they use false parallels to push rights for Gaia.<\/p>\n

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\u201cC\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez-Garavito, a Colombian legal scholar who leads the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic at New York University, said the UK\u2019s position was paradoxical at best and contradictory at worst. \u2018It\u2019s paradoxical because it recognises rights for non-human entities like corporations but denies them to non-human living beings. It\u2019s contradictory because, while rhetorically acknowledging different cultures and Indigenous worldviews, it nevertheless imposes the western understanding of rights and law,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     The falsity of this logic is that corporations are ultimately owned by people and run by people working on behalf of the owners, while nature per se<\/em> isn\u2019t, though it can be owned by humans and it is those humans whose property rights can be violated.<\/p>\n

     But how bad can simply looking after Earth be? As bad as you\u2019d expect from humanity-hating zealots who want to deindustrialize everything. People are pushing to make \u201cecocide<\/a>\u201d a crime punishable by the International Criminal Court on a similar level to genocide. Such crimes could include: Industrial fishing; deep sea mining; cattle ranching; large-scale agriculture farms; mining; oil extraction; fracking; and cement manufacturing.<\/p>\n

     Why yes, that is<\/em> bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe conjoined \u2018nature rights\u2019 and \u2018ecocide\u2019 movements are part of the increasing effort among radical leftists to destroy Western civilization, the central principle of which is human exceptionalism. If that revolution prevails \u2014 and I think it could within a decade or so unless we wake up \u2014 our economies are doomed. Why? Nature-rights laws empower radical greens to go to court to stop any use of the natural world with which they disapprove. \u2018Ecocide\u2019 would make large mining and energy-extraction development a heinous crime. Imagine the litigation possibilities!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     If you enjoy the fruits of the industrialized world, then to these Gaia cultists, you are literally Hitler.<\/p>\n

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