What Mother Earth has suffered

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH

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We, the peoples of Earth: 

gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth gives us life, nourishes and teaches us and provides us with all that we need to live well;

recognizing that Mother Earth is an indivisible community of diverse and interdependent beings with whom we share a common destiny and to whom we must relate in ways that benefit Mother Earth;acknowledging that by attempting to dominate and exploit Mother Earth and other beings, humans have caused severe destruction, degradation and disruption of the life-sustaining communities, processes and balances of Mother Earth which now threatens the well-being and existence of many beings; www.rightsofmotherearth