In Bolivia, Pachamama takes aim at capitalism with UN treaty

La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia, is the world's highest capital city (3,660 m; 12,005 ft). Bolivia is the world’s third largest cultivator of coca and a major consumer of cocaine. [Photo and caption/text: CIA World Fact Book/US Govmt.]Earth Day is approaching so it seems fitting Bolivia will put forth the draft of a treaty to the United Nations declaring Mother Earth has the same rights as humans. The move has been disclosed in Canadian media who often cover US and global events more honestly than domestic US media. The news site Canada.com said the treaty “is meant to mirror” a law enacted in Bolivia, the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth.

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Bolivia’s double standard emerges in Cancun climate gala

Special feature on the Cancun Climate Conference

Bolivia aims to protect “Mother Earth” with “tough action” to limit a rise in world temperatures at half the level set at the climate conference in Copenhagen last year. Reuters said Pablo Solon, Boliva’s UN ambassador, “assailed rich nations.” I assume he did that as he promoted theo-science which is very similar to tree and animal worship in primitive times. But Bolivia has a redwood-sized double standard and I can guarantee you big media will not say a word about it. Solon’s country is anything but a good steward of “Mother Earth.”

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Cocaine damage to rain forests illustrates political failure in climate change mindset

Indigenous children in a rainforest. (For link and credit see 'references' beneath story.)Colombia’s vice-president Francisco Santos told the Associated Press people should realize if they use cocaine, they’re destroying the rain forests. The AP cited some astounding statistics in that story: The Colombian government says four sq. meters (4.8 sq. yards) of rain forest have to be cleared to produce a gram of cocaine—and 2.2 million hectares (5.44 million acres) of Colombian tropical forest have been cut down to grow coca in the last twenty years.

Not only does cocaine destroy a resource that benefits the whole planet, it’s a drug that can be deadly. In her book, ‘How Not to Die,’ Dr. Jan Garavaglia says cocaine is the most commonly abused illicit drug she encounters in the morgue.

When I hear global warming alarmists like Al Gore talk about carbon credits and offsets, it’s all I can do to listen.

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