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    • Human Environmental Rights: a Nonkilling Checklist, by Francisco Gomes de Matos

    We kill environmentally when we...

    contaminate the air with the use of gases and smoke
    strip rivers and seas of their wildlife
    destroy plants with the use of herbicides
    cause forest destruction
    cause the vanishing of tropical rain forests
    reduce species to near extinction
    destroy ecosystems through land reclamation

    fail to

    protect species of animals in danger of extinction
    protect human beings from noise that can threaten health
    protect human beings from the effects of radioactive waste
    protect the soil from deplention,decrease in fertility
    ensure animal rights especially those of endangered species
    create and apply realistic environmentalo-protection laws/legislation
    protect life in oceans
    control, reduce, eliminate carbon dioxide emissions
    care for national parks and reserves
    support and sustain Nature conservation
    ensure human beings of their right to a healthy environment

    cause

    pollution or abuse of air,earth and water resources
    households to suffger from fuel poverty,lack of livable warmth
    environmental injustice(environmentally unjust actions affecting the lives of human beings,flora and fauna)

    The above listing is open-ended.Please add to it, refine it, adapt it to your environmental reality.

    As Human Environmental Rights extend its horizons, let´s do our share so that Humankind can learn to live nonkillingly and to contribute to preventing international environmental injustice and indignity to occur.

    May this be a plea for environmental rights also to be researched from the perspective of Nonkilling Studies, as cogently advocated by Glenn D. Paige and those who share his Nonkilling Approach.



    Francisco Gomes de Matos is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil; Co-author of the chapter "Toward a Nonkilling Linguistics" (Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm, Honolulu, 2009), basis of the Course "Nonkilling Linguistics" at Wikiversity's School of Nonkilling Studies. Professor Emeritus, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Co-founder and currently President of the Board, Associação Brasil América. He can be reached at fcgm@hotlink.com.br