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EARTH JURISPRUDENCE and WILD LAW

EARTH JURISPRUDENCE and WILD LAW. Carine Nadal, Gaia Foundation. EARTH JURISPRUDENCE/ EARTH LAW. A PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LIVING THAT VALUES THE INTEGRITY AND WELLBEING OF THE WHOLE OF NATURE. KEY PRINCIPLES/LAWS. Lawfulness Wholeness Care Mutual Enhancement Resulting in

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EARTH JURISPRUDENCE and WILD LAW

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  1. EARTH JURISPRUDENCE and WILD LAW Carine Nadal, Gaia Foundation

  2. EARTH JURISPRUDENCE/EARTH LAW A PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LIVING THAT VALUES THE INTEGRITY AND WELLBEING OF THE WHOLE OF NATURE

  3. KEY PRINCIPLES/LAWS • Lawfulness • Wholeness • Care • Mutual Enhancement • Resulting in • Rights for Nature

  4. WILD LAW EARTH JURISPRUDENCE IN LEGAL PRACTICE

  5. SYMPTOMS • Climate change/chaos and peak oil • 6th mass extinction of biodiversity • Deforestation • Social inequity • Lost wisdom, livelihoods and culture

  6. CAUSES Human centred mindset Resulting in Disregard for Nature’s laws Disconnection

  7. CAUSES Human centred laws and governance legitimise Nature as ‘property’

  8. SOLUTIONS Earth Community is a communion of subjects and not a collection of objects Thomas Berry, The Great Work 1999

  9. TRADITIONAL WISDOM AND PRACTICES

  10. INITIATIVES • Community –e.g. Gaia’s partners, Transition Town • Wild laws/governance– e.g. Ecuadorian Constitution, Declaration for Mother Earth Rights, crime of Ecocide, Ombudsman for future generations • Education – e.g. WL book, Gaia – UKELA WL Report, media, EJ Resource Centre, EJ syllabus, WL education group • Workshops – e.g. UKELA WL weekends, Gaia Learning Centre, Schumacher College, Australia, Bolivia’s alternative Peoples Conference April 22nd

  11. THE GREAT WORK continue developing and practicing Earth Jurisprudence and build a resilient future for the whole Earth Community Personal – eco-citizens/ ‘wildlings’ Collective –e.g. Transition Town network Professional – wild lawyers

  12. Thank you for participating www.gaiafoundation.org

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