Can Brazil burn down the Amazon rainforest? Can members of the Nuke Club do more nuclear testing? Can any country destroy World Heritage Sites within its territory? What can the world do to avoid imminent grave environmental damage to the environment by any government? In other words:
Who owns the environment?
The answer is obvious, of course: nobody.
But all nations of the world don’t believe so. On the contrary, they accept as accurate that they have regulatory rights or ownership over everything within their borders, including the environment. Their political leaders and people think they can do whatever they want within their territory regardless of its negative environmental impact in their domain (like burning down the Amazon rain forest) and somewhere else on the planet (creating barriers to stop animal migrations). They feel free to fulfill their caprices such as brutalizing rain forests or waters for infrastructures, industries or tourism, destroying lands for mining, trash dumping, sea and pole misuse and exploitation; in sum, environmentally do whatever they want inside the space, the rest of the world admits they have full sovereignty, or any country does not own it, like the Poles or high seas This groundless belief of countries over the environment is what I’ve called “Bad Sovereignty”, to me, one of the leading cause of climate change.
Immediate actions are required, and young people whose future is jeopardised due to climate change must take the lead. BAD SOVEREIGNTY, as the most destructive force of the environment, must be immediately removed as a Constitutional privilege in all countries of the world, and the time to act is now. Not an easy task, but possible. However, It’s a ‘scorching issue’, and progress is slow and time-consuming. I’ve just written a movie script called DO UT DES, based in Australia, which promotes the concept. If you or anyone is genuinely interested and believes you can help in its promotion, I will gladly send a portion for your consideration.
I'm a retired Venezuelan lawyer presently living in Mexico, and a published novelist (by Planeta, Spain, and other publishers)
Can Brazil burn down the Amazon rainforest? Can members of the Nuke Club do more nuclear testing? Can any country destroy World Heritage Sites within its territory? What can the world do to avoid imminent grave environmental damage to the environment by any government? In other words:
Who owns the environment?
The answer is obvious, of course: nobody.
But all nations of the world don’t believe so. On the contrary, they accept as accurate that they have regulatory rights or ownership over everything within their borders, including the environment. Their political leaders and people think they can do whatever they want within their territory regardless of its negative environmental impact in their domain (like burning down the Amazon rain forest) and somewhere else on the planet (creating barriers to stop animal migrations). They feel free to fulfill their caprices such as brutalizing rain forests or waters for infrastructures, industries or tourism, destroying lands for mining, trash dumping, sea and pole misuse and exploitation; in sum, environmentally do whatever they want inside the space, the rest of the world admits they have full sovereignty, or any country does not own it, like the Poles or high seas This groundless belief of countries over the environment is what I’ve called “Bad Sovereignty”, to me, one of the leading cause of climate change.
Immediate actions are required, and young people whose future is jeopardised due to climate change must take the lead. BAD SOVEREIGNTY, as the most destructive force of the environment, must be immediately removed as a Constitutional privilege in all countries of the world, and the time to act is now. Not an easy task, but possible. However, It’s a ‘scorching issue’, and progress is slow and time-consuming. I’ve just written a movie script called DO UT DES, based in Australia, which promotes the concept. If you or anyone is genuinely interested and believes you can help in its promotion, I will gladly send a portion for your consideration.
I'm a retired Venezuelan lawyer presently living in Mexico, and a published novelist (by Planeta, Spain, and other publishers)
Thank you
Jorge Partidas Alzuru
Soberania.ambiental.global@gmail.com
jorgepartidas@gmail.com