• Only in England: the Eco-Stasi – and Ecuador!

    by  • October 3, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Residents of the planned eco towns in England could face strict monitoring of their travel habits, home insulation and even wasted food, to ensure they are truly living a “green” lifestyle.

    Experts advising the government on its plans to build up to 10 eco towns by 2020, yesterday called for ministers to toughen environmental standards for the developments with monitoring to ensure their carbon footprint is three times smaller than the British average.

    The recommendation is that there should be detailed scrutiny of the number of trips residents make by car, and the types of waste produced by households and businesses.

    Eco town dwellers may be monitored for green habits

    Oh, ecostalinism (by the way, nearly all those uses are mine… why is this a nonword, like ecomaoism?) has Merry Old England come to claim you? I may yet get around to publishing my fabled, never-yet-released, “Corporatism vs. Ecostalinism – a 21st century dialectic.”

    UPDATE:

    In more recent cases, courts have indicated that vesting legal rights in natural resources is not implausible, but Congress needs to provide that standing in legislation. In Cetacean Community v. Bush (2004), the court sadly held that the language in the environmental statutes did not vest the world’s cetaceans (marine mammals like whales, porpoises, and dolphins) with standing to compel Bush to comply with the law.

    Nature bites back!

    Art. 1. Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.

    Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public organisms. The application and interpretation of these rights will follow the related principles established in the Constitution.

    Ecuador shoots, scored! GOOOAAAAALLL! with a new constitution, to be ratified in a month and a bit. Good luck, Nature, and bueno south america. (that is an in joke, you are not expected to understand)

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