For many ancient races still the earth is more than a living organism. The people who depend on the oceans worship water as God and the people living in the jungles do worship the mountains and rivers. But granting the Mother Earth a status by a statue is the rarest and the first. Whether it is possible to implement the law is a question. But the seriousness one has attached to this important issue is laudable.
The law institutionalizes Bolivians’ veneration of the Andean deity Pachamama, or ‘Mother Earth’, by establishing a bill of rights for the natural world. The 11 rights listed include the rights to biodiversity, uncontaminated water and air, freedom from genetically modified crops and freedom from over development.
The law also creates an ‘ombudsman’ for Mother Earth, and outlines a framework for the responsible use of Bolivia’s vast mineral and hydrocarbon reserves. “The environmental functions and natural processes … cannot be considered as commodities, but as sacred gifts from Mother Earth,” the law states.
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