Posted on 04/13/2011 10:12:03 PM PDT by Crush
Earth Day is approaching so it seems fitting Bolivia will put forth the draft of a treaty to the United Nations declaring Mother Earth has the same rights as humans. The move has been disclosed in Canadian media who often cover US and global events more honestly than domestic US media. The news site Canada.com said the treaty “is meant to mirror” a law enacted in Bolivia, the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth.
The embodiment of Mother Earth, said the Canadian publication, is Pachamama, the Earth Deity worshiped in indigenous Andean culture. The concept is at odds with the Judaeo-Christian tenet of man having dominion over the earth, but Western countries will ultimately confront this treaty and the political aspects of it—as always, the aim is money but religion once again is being co-opted to mobilize the populace for political and financial gain.
In 2008 Bolivia presented a pamphlet to the UN containing 10 commandments addressing saving Mother Earth.
Canada.com said one commandment stipulates ending capitalism.
In the U.S., we don’t really need help from Bolivia to do that. The current administration continues a pre-existing path of socializing various sectors of the economy including car manufacturing, banking, mortgage lending, healthcare and others.
Bolivia, according to the CIA World Fact Book, is “one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America.” Approximately 30 percent of the population lives on less than $2 a day (2009).
Bolivia’s natural resources are operated under risk-sharing contracts after foreign firms surrendered “all production to the state energy company in exchange for a pre-determined service fee” said the Fact Book. This temporarily benefited Bolivia’s economy and as in many other countries with natural resources, produced a spike in commodities prices in other countries.
Bolivia, however, like many countries...
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Funny how the left co-opts Gaia-worship when it suits them.
SO basically, radical leftists want to force their religion down our throats.
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