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Eric Nicolas Schneider
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ACCESS to BASIC NEEDS or PROFIT ? Human Rights as an enforcement of Sustainability?
March 2, 2004 - 07:21 AM
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Human Rights as an enforcement of Sustainability?
We are heading towards a time of dwindling resources and ecological crisis. Some key issues: no safe drinking water for 5 of 8 billion people in 2025, desertification of 66% of today's agricultural surface (UN data bottom-lines for the declaration Agenda21 in 1992!!!), fall-out of the ocean's phytoplancton oxygen production (70% of global oxygen) by pollution and subsequent overheating, fall-out of Europe's natural heating, the Gulf Stream as fast as a single season from now is treated as an imminent scenario by interdisciplinary scientists (http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal), and Africa is being depopulated by "AIDS", some countries have 80% teenagers today.
Meanwhile, the affluent are getting sick of overeating and air conditioning, multinational corporations will not give (effective?) medication, are destroying biodiversity (the resource for humankinds survival) to sell their genetic foodstuff, - and COKE and family are buying away the water resources to sell WATER most expensive, - or simply to secure it "legally" for exportation to the dominant countries...while leaving hundreds of millions to starve away. This is up in the next decade!
These are just a few hot facts around BASIC NEEDS as a HUMAN RIGHT : they are not covered in today's agreements.
I guess," Compassion & Sharing" is the ethical equivalent to human rights. But as so many greedy peopls' horizon of compassion is hardly detectable, policy standards still are the closest tool (besides education) to make people behave properly...
Could HUMAN RIGHTS to BASIC NEEDS and ACCESS to clean water, food and shelter be THE major policy tool for "enforcing sustainability policies"?
If yes, - how can we work towards it?
And WHAT WILL BE THE PUNISHMENT for governments and corporations boards breaking the Human Rights guidelines, = killing millions?
Any idea and opinion will be fruitful to start a NEW and VITAL TURF in global policy...
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Re: ACCESS to BASIC NEEDS or PROFIT ? Human Rights as an enforcement of Sustainability?
March 3, 2004 - 12:39 PM
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First, these are appaling, info. But bad as they seem, most of them will come true. Rich countries will need a strong military, since there is gonna be fighting.
Hmm, we'll have to find many ways to reuse materials and resources we use in daily life.
Especially water supply and . YES, air !!.
Ave Futuria
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