to be, I memory, we honor our ancestors, who protected nature to ofrecérnosla a legacy which made our dreams, and it is the only way we can bequeath to men and women, our children, a setting in which to meet theirs.
But since the April 20, 2010 an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon by British Petroleum (BP) led to a terrible oil spill in marine waters, the largest in history: 5 million barrels overflowed by the sea, and the deaths of 11 workers.
Nature lets us be and let us live was wounded. Many animals and plants perished then poisoned, others will die when oil does not cover enough. Those who ingest this oil suffer from pains in the intestinal tract and fatal disposals infiltration in the brain. Dolphins, whales and sperm whales in this new sea viscous disoriented and eventually suffocated sailing near the coast. Five of the seven species of sea turtles in the world are threatened with extinction, including the only existing vegetarian turtle. The bluefin tuna sushi almost out of both, is another marine species devastated by the spill as the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important incubators of bluefin tuna in the world. In areas of the spill thousands of gulls, brown pelicans and gannets black smeared stopped flying.
The plover and the majestic white heron, which are accustomed to nest and breed in this area, oiled feathers can not regulate temperature and freezing to death or die of heat. Crude infiltrated as a radiographic contrast, the veins and arteries of coral reefs leaving their diseased tissues for many years: a broken home to over 300 species of fish tenants. When you get the black spot to mangrove forests clog density natural drainage to the sea and consequently the death of vegetation.
hardiest trees, older, stronger resist but infected leaves stop producing oil and complete healing of the mangroves will have to wait several decades. If no new spills occur. Seagrasses and algae pools with abundant marine microorganisms million, the base of the food chain, were also affected, and with them who eats and who eats plankton that eat plankton, and so on to large marine predators. Accidents
logical subsidiary model of growth without end, of the overexploitation of nature and the dispossession of others people who are days, months or years of future lost, worn before enjoy, finished before released.
Aware of this, a group of citizens of the world have filed a lawsuit against BP for no damage or injury to persons (that there, and there are those who manage these demands) but by an individual attack on their basic rights infringed in: Nature. And since the international system of rights, far behind in this sense, nature does not recognize as subject-and appealing to the principle of universal jurisdiction-take legal support Ecuador's Constitution of 2008, which provides, inter alia, the obligation to guarantee the rights of nature (Article 277); protect nature against the adverse effects of disasters on the Risk Management chapter (Article 389), establish effective mechanisms for prevention and control of environmental pollution, recovery degraded natural areas and sustainable management of natural resources (Article 397-2), finds as rights of nature full respect to their existence and the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes (Article 71 ), and recognizes water as a vital element in nature (Article 318).
A brave initiative that calls for a new justice for nature (not submissive to the transnational corporations or the economic or simpletons anthropocentric) to make another world possible.
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