EARTH CHARTER I. RESPECT AND CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY OF LIFEMore |
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1. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity.
1a. Recognize that all beings are interdependent and every form of life has value regardless of its worth to human beings.
1b. Affirm faith in the inherent dignity of all human beings and in the intellectual, artistic, ethical, and spiritual potential of humanity.
2. Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion, and love.
2a. Accept that with the right to own, manage, and use natural resources comes the duty to prevent environmental harm and to protect the rights of people.
2b. Affirm that with increased freedom, knowledge, and power comes increased responsibility to promote the common good.
3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful.
3a. Ensure that communities at all levels guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms and provide everyone an opportunity to realize his or her full potential.
3b. Promote social and economic justice, enabling all to achieve a secure and meaningful livelihood that is ecologically responsible.
4. Secure Earth's bounty and beauty for present and future generations.
4a. Recognize that the freedom of action of each generation is qualified by the needs of future generations.
4b. Transmit to future generations values, traditions, and institutions that support the long-term flourishing of Earth's human and ecological communities.
Yes We Can -- Save The Planet -- Our PetitionMore |
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1. Re-evaluate ourselves as the prime cause of the planetary problems we are facing, and continue to re-evaluate.
2. Respect the inherent value in every single human being.
3. Respect the vastly unexplored complexity of ecosystems and life in all its forms, and the world's diverse cultures, including the open, constructive, peace-loving and responsible integrity which is evolving in Humanity.
4. Create a planetary peace and ecological culture (i.e. a sustainable civilization).
5. Positively evolve regarding issues of consumption and economy, through changes in consciousness, value systems, needs, and education.
6. Recognize human potential as a prerequisite to the development of true Civilization including the power of the mind to devise appropriate technologies and enlightened strategies.
7. Use communication technology and the media and educational systems as a strategic vehicle to unite humanity for peace and non violence rather than for war
8. Integrate scientific disciplines and scientific knowledge with consciousness.
9. Create universal access to the world’s knowledge and use innovative forms of education, which recapture the essence and heart of education for life.
10. Promote economic empowerment of the developing world, by developed countries, to aid in all human development.
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