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

• Rights for Nature

WILD LAW

EARTH JURISPRUDENCE IN LEGAL PRACTICE

SYMPTOMS

• Climate change/chaos and peak oil

• 6th mass extinction of biodiversity

• Deforestation• Social inequity • Lost wisdom,

livelihoods and culture

CAUSES

• Human centred mindset

Resulting in• Disregard for

Nature’s laws • Disconnection

CAUSES

• Human centred laws and governance

legitimise• Nature as

‘property’

SOLUTIONS

Earth Community is a communion of

subjects and not a collection of objects

Thomas Berry, The Great Work 1999

TRADITIONAL WISDOM AND PRACTICES

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

THE GREAT WORK

• Personal – eco-citizens/ ‘wildlings’

• Collective –e.g. Transition Town network

• Professional – wild lawyers

continue developing and practicing Earth Jurisprudence and build a resilient future for the

whole Earth Community

Thank you for participating

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