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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Is it time to set in stone environmental protection as a legal right? Also, Mary Grant with Food and Water Watch joins to Thom to alert us to Republican efforts to refund affordable drinking water across the nation.
Plus - Thom reads from 'Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival From Our Ancestors'
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0:39.3 | Should our great grandchildren have officially human rights that we can set in stone now? |
0:47.9 | The Urquay Confederacy had this notion that all decisions had to be made in the context of their |
0:53.2 | impact on the seventh generation forward. Now, a generation is about 20 years, so seven generations |
0:59.2 | would be 140 years in the future. And I can tell you, I don't think anybody would disagree |
1:08.0 | that with the assertion that nobody in Congress is making decisions thinking about, |
1:13.0 | you know, what life is going to be like in 2170, you know, 140 years from now. |
1:19.9 | But we should be. We seriously should be because our grandchildren are going to come assuming |
1:26.3 | that we don't all get wiped out by climate change or nuclear war or something. |
1:31.0 | And so now there's this, this was officially launched on July 13th, it's called the Maastric |
1:37.2 | or Maastric Principles on Human Rights of Future Generations. |
1:42.3 | And this is an international group of international human rights experts who have put forward |
1:49.3 | this at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, is where it was laid out. |
1:55.3 | And the principles clarify that human rights, including the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable |
2:00.5 | environment, do not have temporal limitations. In other words, they're not time limited. |
2:07.1 | If we're saying these are human rights, it doesn't mean that they're human rights for the next 10 |
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