A Bill of Rights for Future Generations

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A Bill of Rights for Future Generations

We, the people of the future, like the twenty thousand generations who came before us, have the right to breathe air that smells sweet, to drink water that runs pure and free, to swim in waters that teem with life, and to grow our food in rich, living earth.

We have the right to inherit a world unsullied by toxic chemicals, nuclear waste, or genetic pollution. We have the right to walk in untamed nature and to feel the awe that comes when we suddenly lock eyes with a wild beast.

We beseech you, the people of today: do not leave your dirty messes for us to clean up; do not take technological risks, however small, that may backfire catastrophically in times to come. Just as we respectfully ask that you not burden us with your deferred debts and depleted pension plans, we also claim our right to a share of the planets ecological wealth. Please dont use it all up.

We, in turn, promise to do the same. We grant these same rights and privileges to the generations who will live after us; we do so in the sacred hope that the human spirit will live forever.

A curse on any generation who ignores this plea.

47 Signatures

Kevin Conway
erin gagen
Joey Mulkerin
Peter O'Connell
David Ito
Neal Rose
Kellie Huynh
- Comments
- A curse on any generation who ignores this plea
John Davidson
- Comments
- Read "The Stewardship Doctrine," at www.conlaw.org.
Bert Hollestelle
Megan Bringe
- Comments
- amen.
Jo
- Comments
- please become vegan, to really help this planet
franchesca
Vlasa Claudiu-Ionel
Foivos Stasinos
sami Araboghli
Juliane Lazarus
- Comments
- The idea is good. However I would not want to curse anyone. We need to work cooperatively together to find solutions. We are far stronger when we work together. This may be the year that we connect and reinvent ourselves. We are capable of lovingly showing others how to use free energy. We can overcome our fear of change and move towards a new cleaner and happier future.
Amanda Tejada
- Comments
- I hope we do have the right to experience these beautiful events
nicola Thompson
Robert Gunier
b
- Comments
- please learn to respect wild law
Matthew Thompson
Farhat Ali Mir
- Comments
- very interesting to pursue the objectives.
Chuck Spears
- Comments
- Everyone who signed this petition has AIDS
Aruna Chandrasekhar
- Comments
- В
Antonella Bottaru
Jamie Walls
Smriti Chauhan
- Comments
- This is a basic right for everyone.
Nahian Latif
- Comments
- NSU Nova Future Project
Chloe Tipton
Mat
Samantha McDermott
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- This is how our Bill should look.
Cory Morningstar
Melissa Dolson
Samantha Devine
Rishi Gulati
Johannes Fundyler
Michael
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- You work towards the essential cause. Cursing seems counterproductive and examples probably weaken the cause. But possible future generations have the right to exist and benefit from the knowledge of previous generations, and probably more. Let's hope we can find a way to let them.
TERESA BOZANO
Ted Striegel
Jordyn
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- I agree
Paul Price
Sherman Mercadal-Roy
Dr. Rainer Kist
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- I propose a central term to be used in the debate about future generations and their rights: "Child Compatibility". In analogy to Environmental Compatibility Child Compatibility should turn out to be todays most important guiding motive and moral imperative related to any action on any local or global level of our civilization! Every mother worldwide will immediately understand the meaning of the term "Child Compatibility": it translates into provision of food, clean water, health, education, employment, safe living, freedom, justice, peace! Child compatibility needs to be enforced by law - it will thus allow to unmask any political, economical or other actors who violate this guiding motive of Child Compatibility and hence the rights of future generations! Lets think about it and work it out!
James H. Benesch
Ines
Alexis Diana Laney