ESRA: Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the US Constitution

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(While I realize the website name "spiritualprogressives" can be a turnoff for some who are not believers, which I wholeheartedly respect - :hi: - I think the premise of this amendment is one everyone can agree with and thus may want to endorse, which is why I'm sharing).

As proposed by Rabbi Michael Lerner and Peter Gabel and advanced through the work of The Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org.


The intent of the framers of this Amendment is to:

a. Protect the planet and its inhabitants from environmentally destructive economic arrangements and behavior, and to increase environmental responsibility on the part of all corporations and government bodies.

b. Increase U.S. citizens’ democratic control over American economic and political institutions and ensure that all people, regardless of income, have the same electoral clout and power to shape policies and programs.

c. Promote the well-being of citizens of the United States by recognizing that our well-being depends on the well-being of the planet and all its inhabitants, which in turn requires an end to poverty, wars, and violence, and the rise of a new global ethic of genuine caring and mutual interdependence.

http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/2010062306243316