Earth Government for Earth Community
A grassroots process
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Earth Government for Earth Community A grassroots process
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Earth Environmental Governance can only be achieved successfully within the larger context of Sustainable Developent and Earth Management. All aspects are inter-related and affect one another. A healthy environment is essential to long term prosperity and well-being, and citizens in Earth Community demand a high level of ecological protection. This is the 'raison d'etre' of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. In this way the Scale of Earth Rights gives us a 'sense of direction' for future planning and managing of the Earth. Earth management is now well defined and becomes a goal to achieve. We no longer waste energy and resources in things that are absolutely unimportant. The Earth Community Organization found evident that the ecological base
is the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness and exercise of all
rights recognized for human beings. The stewardship of the ecological base
has to be given priority before the fulfilment of various economic and
social wishes. Demands resulting from the socio-economic system of a particular
country have to find their limits in the protection of the global ecosystem.
Vital interests of future generations have to be considered as having priority
before less vital interests of the present generation. Supply chains have
to be designed in a way, that the goods can enter after usage or consumption
into natural or industrial recycling processes. If serious damages to persons,
animals, plants and the ecosystem cannot be excluded, an action or pattern
of behaviour should be refrained from. A measure for supplying goods or
services should choose a path which entails the least possible impact on
the ecological and social system concerned. This way functioning proven
systems will not be disturbed, and unnecessary risks will not be
taken. Supply strategies consuming less resources should have preference before those enhancing
more resource consumption. The Earth Community Organization has also extended
the idea of sustainability to be a moral and ethical state, as well as
an economic and environmental state, wherein sustainable consumption patterns
respect the universal values of peace, security, justice and equity within
the human relationships that exist in Earth Community. When there is a
need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution
would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes
reversible damage as oppose to a measure or an action causing an irreversible
loss.
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