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rce=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=6550582">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure><h2 id="b9c3">Court Cases</h2>I predict that it will be a matter of time now before ecosystems all around the world will get a voice in our courtrooms. They will get a legal guardian who speaks on their behalf and talks about ecocide, pollution, and poisoning.USA, are you listening? China, are you listening?We all know, here at Climate Conscious, that stopping ecocide is an important aim for changing the current paradigm of destruction. We need to dare to say NO to progress that is no progress at all. But just destruction.Also, it is a good marker for shifting from the age of industrial production to <a href="https://biomimicry.org/">biomimicry</a> in cluster economies. Economies of scope. Life-friendly chemicals. Healthy production and transformation processes instead of the take-make-and-break-strategies we use now.Legal action is a great way to achieve that.In my country, the Netherlands, our government and multinationals have been forced to take nature seriously after a few groundbreaking court cases.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/dutch-appeals-court-upholds-landmark-climate-change-ruling">One in 2018</a> against our government.<blockquote id="66ef">“Netherlands ordered to increase emissions cuts in a historic ruling that puts ‘all world governments on notice’. Appeal court judges ruled that the severity and scope of the climate crisis demanded greenhouse gas reductions of at least 25% by 2020 — measured against 1990 levels — higher than the 17% drop planned by Mark Rutte’s liberal administration.” — <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/dutch-appeals-court-upholds-landmark-climate-change-ruling">Guardian</a></blockquote>The ministers are still struggling to see HOW they should do it. But that’s their job. If I were a minister, it would be easy. Just cut out what doesn’t serve us anymore. Be radical. Lean into the evolution of what needs to change in the world right now.But of course, our government isn’t as radical as I am.<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57257982">One against Shell in 2021</a>.<blockquote id="b8c6">“By 2030, Shell must cut its CO2 emissions by 45% compared to 2019 levels, the civil court ruled. The Shell group is responsible for its own CO2 emissions and those of its suppliers, the verdict said.” — <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57257982">BBC</a

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</blockquote>And course, also here, they struggle. Well, I hope we turn the screws a bit tighter soon with legal measures. Because Shell just announced their profits over 2021.<blockquote id="ade4">“Shell, formerly Royal Dutch Shell, reported total revenue of 261.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. This was a notable increase compared to the slump in the previous year [..] As one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, the company reported its greatest profits during years.” — <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/268734/revenue-of-shell/">Statista</a></blockquote>Highest profits ever! And they fight a court ruling that they are responsible for the fact that poison and pollute the world? That doesn’t sound fair, does it?Autonomy and the right to make a profit comes with the responsibility for all you create. ALL YOU CREATE. And it’s just a matter of adapting <a href="https://readmedium.com/business-models-from-linear-to-circular-to-regenerative-9f10c19f337">your business model</a> to that fact. I know they don’t like it. The easy days are over.But it’s only fair that they are held accountable. Like we are all accountable for the consequences of what we do in life.<h2 id="2fe7">Not All Rosy (Yet)</h2>Of course, it takes time now to get a new balance in the courtrooms. The guardians of ecosystems will speak up for their rivers and lakes. We will see a huge increase in court cases, I predict.But the judges and the barristers will have to get used to it of course. Precedents have to be formed and recognized as valid.But the first steps are there.Let’s celebrate, my friends, let’s celebrate!And move on…<div id="7522" class="link-block">

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The First Lake in Europe Got Legal Human Rights! Yoehoe! Celebration!

Mar Menor in Spain has the honor

Mar Menor lake. Looks beautiful, but dead fish is more the reality. Picture Wikimedia.

A huge wave of rivers and lakes getting legal rights is flooding the world right now. And it makes me sooooo happy!

What’s happening?

It started rather recently. Just a few years ago. The Guardian wrote several articles about the phenomenon. And by now, several rivers around the world and now a Spanish lake have legal rights.

Human rights.

“In 2017, an exceptional incident occurred. Whanganui River became the first waterway in the world to get legal personhood. The third-longest river in New Zealand can now be represented in court and has two guardians to speak on its behalf. Environmentalists and Indigenous rights advocates praised this unprecedented event.” — Wildernis Society

After New Zealand, India and Bangladesh followed suit.

Two rivers in India, the Ganges, and Yamuna rivers, also received legal rights as if they were a person.

After that, Bangladesh followed. This country gave all her rivers human rights.

And now Spain. Mar Menor. A salty lake where the fish are dying fast.

Yoehoe! I’ll be dancing the night away in the moonlight! Celebrating!

Court Cases

I predict that it will be a matter of time now before ecosystems all around the world will get a voice in our courtrooms. They will get a legal guardian who speaks on their behalf and talks about ecocide, pollution, and poisoning.

USA, are you listening? China, are you listening?

We all know, here at Climate Conscious, that stopping ecocide is an important aim for changing the current paradigm of destruction. We need to dare to say NO to progress that is no progress at all. But just destruction.

Also, it is a good marker for shifting from the age of industrial production to biomimicry in cluster economies. Economies of scope. Life-friendly chemicals. Healthy production and transformation processes instead of the take-make-and-break-strategies we use now.

Legal action is a great way to achieve that.

In my country, the Netherlands, our government and multinationals have been forced to take nature seriously after a few groundbreaking court cases.

One in 2018 against our government.

“Netherlands ordered to increase emissions cuts in a historic ruling that puts ‘all world governments on notice’. Appeal court judges ruled that the severity and scope of the climate crisis demanded greenhouse gas reductions of at least 25% by 2020 — measured against 1990 levels — higher than the 17% drop planned by Mark Rutte’s liberal administration.” — Guardian

The ministers are still struggling to see HOW they should do it. But that’s their job. If I were a minister, it would be easy. Just cut out what doesn’t serve us anymore. Be radical. Lean into the evolution of what needs to change in the world right now.

But of course, our government isn’t as radical as I am.

One against Shell in 2021.

“By 2030, Shell must cut its CO2 emissions by 45% compared to 2019 levels, the civil court ruled. The Shell group is responsible for its own CO2 emissions and those of its suppliers, the verdict said.” — BBC

And course, also here, they struggle. Well, I hope we turn the screws a bit tighter soon with legal measures. Because Shell just announced their profits over 2021.

“Shell, formerly Royal Dutch Shell, reported total revenue of 261.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. This was a notable increase compared to the slump in the previous year [..] As one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, the company reported its greatest profits during years.” — Statista

Highest profits ever! And they fight a court ruling that they are responsible for the fact that poison and pollute the world? That doesn’t sound fair, does it?

Autonomy and the right to make a profit comes with the responsibility for all you create. ALL YOU CREATE. And it’s just a matter of adapting your business model to that fact. I know they don’t like it. The easy days are over.

But it’s only fair that they are held accountable. Like we are all accountable for the consequences of what we do in life.

Not All Rosy (Yet)

Of course, it takes time now to get a new balance in the courtrooms. The guardians of ecosystems will speak up for their rivers and lakes. We will see a huge increase in court cases, I predict.

But the judges and the barristers will have to get used to it of course. Precedents have to be formed and recognized as valid.

But the first steps are there.

Let’s celebrate, my friends, let’s celebrate!

And move on…

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