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1 EARTH JURISPRUDENCE and WILD LAW Carine Nadal, Gaia Foundation

2 EARTH JURISPRUDENCE/ EARTH LAW A PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LIVING THAT VALUES THE INTEGRITY AND WELLBEING OF THE WHOLE OF NATURE

3 KEY PRINCIPLES/LAWS Lawfulness Wholeness Care Mutual Enhancement Resulting in Rights for Nature

4 WILD LAW EARTH JURISPRUDENCE IN LEGAL PRACTICE

5 SYMPTOMS Climate change/chaos and peak oil 6 th mass extinction of biodiversity Deforestation Social inequity Lost wisdom, livelihoods and culture

6 CAUSES Human centred mindset Resulting in Disregard for Nature’s laws Disconnection

7 CAUSES Human centred laws and governance legitimise Nature as ‘property’

8 SOLUTIONS Earth Community is a communion of subjects and not a collection of objects Thomas Berry, The Great Work 1999

9 TRADITIONAL WISDOM AND PRACTICES

10 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

11 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

12 Thank you for participating www.gaiafoundation.org


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