Just as Americans decided to emancipate from Europeans powers – Britain, Spain and Portugal – with the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and its motto "America to the Americans", it is time for Continental Europe to free itself from its 70 years dependance on the Anglosphere
If the Rights of Humans, as a species, do no suffice, perhaps the Rights of Nature will
Jacques Huynen
Isn’t that an interesting question? By Human rights do we only mean the Rights of individual humans ? Or also those of Humans as a species? And can the rights of Humans as a species, the Humanity, be distinguished from those of our planet, of the Earth, of Nature?
After all, didn’t Spinoza say that « Deus sive Natura », that when we say « God », we mean « Nature »? 250 years after Adam Smith turned greed into a virtue, unleashed and turned wild unto capitalism, it is eventually showing its real face, that of the Deceiver, the Evil One? Le Maître Trompeur…