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 6 th 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 22 nd

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

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