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UN document would give 'Mother Earth' same rights as humans

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by tallanvor, Apr 12, 2011.

  1. tallanvor

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    http://www.canada.com/news/world/document+would+give+Mother+Earth+same+rights+humans/4597840/story.html

    Best job description ever: "whose job is to hear nature's complaints"

    ****in Hippies
     
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    on the other end are '****in corporate ****suckers' :rolleyes:
     
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  4. mc mark

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    Better Mother Earth than some stupid corporation.
     
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    the word you seek is Kochsucker
     
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    So, would a earthquake or hurricane count as self-defense?

    I have no probel mwith being concerened about the enviroment, but this is just ridiculous. Almost like the project that was going to give apes their own autonomous country AND voting rights. Why do we care more about monkeys and trees than Palestinans and Sudanese?
     
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    Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down.
     
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    Maybe she'll get the same rights as corporations do with the Constitution....
     
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    Mother Earth is a Hawty... (global warming).
     
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    I hear the Eskimos think she's a frosty witch.
     
  11. tallanvor

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    "to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state. "

    How about to hear the complaints of credited scientists about possible environmental threats. Since when were political activists an authority on anything? Can someone major in political activism?
     
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    I meant enviormental activism. sry
     
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    Mother Earth is a lesbian with a smelly twat.
     
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    I expect that the UN, when establishing the right to life for the earth, made sure to include measures to defend against the Sun going supernova and swallowing the earth. I'm not sure why they stopped at the Earth when other planets deserve rights, as well as the Milky Way itself. Gotta clean-up all of our space junk and who better to see the job through than the UN?

    As someone else points out, how is this anymore important than the rights abuses suffered by the UN's fellow man in various places around the globe.
     
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    I would love for the UN to impose a tax on countries that are over-consuming. If the whole world took as much from mother earth as the continent of North America we would need more than one Earth to sustain our ways.
     
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    ****in' hippies, trying to push their clean air and water on the rest of us. Who the **** do they think they are?
     
  18. tallanvor

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    I support the EPA (have stated so many times on this board). What I don't support is giving environmental activists any kind of credibility or authority. Why wouldn't you create policies based on science and research instead of what some people with no credentials say?
     
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    crap like this only hurts the environmental movement.
     
  20. mc mark

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    Is that intended to be a factual statement?
     
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