Looking around at the scorched wreckage of today’s international governmental polity, one may wonder how the Earth Charter even came into being.
Launched just over 25 years ago in 2000 at The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands to great fanfare, it was eight years in the formulating, the work of the independent Earth Charter Commission. Its task was to produce a global consensus statement of principles for a sustainable Earth future. And an important fact is “the Earth Charter is a creed belonging not to governments but to the world’s people”. (See the Earth Charter website)
The Rev Rex Hunt gave a history and discussion of the Earth Charter at a recent talk at our meeting and this talk can be read in full here.
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