What do you think of Bolivia's "Earth Charter"?

[Aaron Handford]

What do you think of Bolivia's recent "Law of Mother Earth" (http://positivenews.org.uk/2011/peace_democracy/justice/4377/bolivia-to-give-legal-rights-to-the-earth/)? I think it is an interesting idea, in theory. But, who decides what the Earth's rights are? Answer: the people in power. Therefore I think this idea carries a great danger of becoming a tool which the state uses to exert control over individuals.

[Dave Turpin]

If you read into it, the charter would basically require 1st world countries to pay for everything that would be required to make it viable.

It is a cyclical argument. It would take a tremenous amount of resources to shift the infrastructure of even the smallest country into a carbon-neutral one while maintaining even a modicum of modern life. The resources would not be, by themselves, carbon nuetral.