{"id":5780,"date":"2011-04-23T21:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T21:11:02","slug":"pachamama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pachamama\/","title":{"rendered":"Pachamama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shaman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shaman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Library of Congress\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5781\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/265502\/pachamama-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted on the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, my bad; I\u2019m late for Earth Day, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/atheologies\/4522\/debate_over_mother_earth%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98rights%E2%80%99_stirs_fears_of_pagan_socialism\/\">here<\/a>, via <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>, is a piece that discusses the \u2018rights\u2019 of the Earth, the eco-system and, well, just about everything. Yes, it\u2019s an absurd premise, and one for which the writer clearly has some sympathy, but this extract from the new (2008) Ecuadorian constitution is still worth noting: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain itself and regenerate its own vital cycles, structure, functions, and its evolutionary processes. Any person, people, community, or nationality, may demand the observance of the rights of the natural environment before public bodies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This somewhat sinister drivel presumably partly reflects the influence of the work of Bolivia\u2019s somewhat sinister president Morales, the man who, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/186638\/heroes-u-n\/andrew-stuttaford\">in 2009<\/a>, was declared by the president of the United Nations General Assembly, one Rev. Miguel D\u2019Escoto Brockmann, to be a \u201cWorld Hero of Mother Earth\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Doctor Who didn\u2019t get the call, apparently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: Yes, yes, my bad; I\u2019m late for Earth Day, but here, via Religion Dispatches, is a piece that discusses the \u2018rights\u2019 of the Earth, the eco-system and, well, just about everything. Yes, it\u2019s an absurd premise, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pachamama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[756,754,755,210,757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}