Earth Charter

Earth Charter was a great reading, and was good to have read this for our last blog. It seemed to want to motivate the reader that change is possible and that it needed to be done now. Earth Charter shows us who we are as people on earth, what the problems are and how we can fix them. “Humanity is part of a vast evolving universe.” Earth has thrown a lot at us of ever changing life new species and new discovering. “The well-being of humanity depended upon preserving a healthy biosphere.” Earth Charter says the problem is that “The dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation, the depletion of resources, and a massive extinction of species. Communities are being undermined.” There are some challenges that lay ahead like the risk of the destruction of ourselves and the diversity of life. We are at that state now where technology is very vast and can almost do anything. Earth Charters says we are able to fix these problems, “We have the knowledge and technology to provide for all and to reduce our impacts on the environment. The emergence of a global civil society is creating new opportunities to build a democratic and humane world. Our environmental, economic, political, social, and spiritual challenges are interconnected, and together we can forge inclusive solutions. Earth Charter finishes up by saying “deciding to live with a sense of universal responsibility, identifying ourselves with the whole earth community as well as our local communities.” Since we are all human beings, sharing this world, we all share responsibility to the present and future well-being of the human family and the larger living world. This is how Earth Charter thinks everyone in the world should be acting, and they are correct. 

This picture really stuck out to me because it shows that we are all humans and that this world is ours. 

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This is Earth Charters logo

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