Planetary Justice: Climate litigation and nature’s rights | earthrise

earthrise explores how individuals and communities are using the law to mitigate the effects of the climate and nature crises.

In Huaraz, in the Peruvian Andes, we meet farmer and mountain guide Saul Luciano Lliuya whose home is at risk of flooding due to glacial melt.

Together with the environmental justice NGO, Germanwatch, Saul is taking one of the Global North’s largest polluters to court, claiming it holds some responsibility for the threat to his home. If successful, a precedent would be set which could open the way for similar cases.

One legal precedent already having a global impact is the move to grant nature legal rights. Initiated by Ecuador in its 2008 constitution, nature’s legal personhood has been recognised in Europe for the first time.

We learn how residents campaigned for the Mar Menor in Spain to be granted rights in order to protect it from being destroyed by human activity.


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[joyfulmindstudio]

Congratulations and profound thanks to the legal professionals who established the rights of the natural world in court. In a society where somehow, inexplicably and insanely, corporations have convinced courts to grant them legal status as “persons, ” this victory pushes back on the suicidal notion that nature exists primarily to further enrich the wealthy. Nature now has a seat at the table. It’s an important start.

[SecretEyeSpot]

Ancestry connected to the earth is the only forefathers that we should honor. Not colonists, Not industrialists, not autocrats. They taught us Nature itself is Sacred, and that there is no God above that will protect us from Nature. We must live in honor and service of the earth and dispel those who disregard this reverence.

[therealcnn]

The big companies have the control not the people

[JBGAMBIT]

Nothing a little George Carlin ‘standup’ can’t explain 😂

[emmanuelameyaw]

😂😂...poor countries shouldnt be deceived to give up their economic growth in the name of climate protection. That will be forever poverty.

[dglolz]

People writing the end of each other, how fitting for us.

[jeremiahjoseph]

We must get closer to MotherEarth and further away from the dollar, forget about the incentives and disincentives around money, and honor the life sustaining connections we have with eachother and the world.

[weareparamore]

Remember rich polluter countries can easily give funds on ukraine for the war, but not on climate funds for loss and damage for most vulnerable countried

[cosmincoco]

the iran drones in russia contained pieces from 13 usa firms, building an empire, and they take the girl idea wich might not have been true, not go all out, against them.

[mariq]

Legal path - grant Great Barrier Reef + each marine reef round Australian continent "Rights of Nature"

[jasonhanson]

Maybe you should consider Human Rights some time also.

[therealcnn]

Science
Just said it was not quantifiable

[thomaslam]

We need to change our shopping habbit, no more disposable clothing, poorly made electronic, house appliances that don't last long, less international travel, less meat consumption, is it possible? Especially when China rely on export of cheap and poor quality products, but the world are willing to pay for it.