The Earthen Magna Carta

In the presence of ancient forests, thawing glaciers, and unborn generations, we—all kin, human and more-than-human—declare sovereignty over life’s web. No law, nation, or economy shall hold authority above the Earth’s right to flourish. This charter is our pact with time: not for a century, but for an eon.

Core Principles

Nature Has Intrinsic Rights
Rivers, mountains, and ecosystems are legal persons with inviolable rights to exist, regenerate, and evolve.

Resources Are Sacred Inheritances
Fossil fuels, minerals, and extracted commodities are finite inheritances, not entitlements.

Ecology Must Be Anti-Colonial
No ecosystem shall be appropriated for profit, nor reduced solely to human utility. Where use is necessary, it must be reciprocal—supporting both ecological regeneration and human need—and governed by Indigenous or bioregional law.

Govern for the Seventh Generation
All decisions must serve life seven generations ahead (Haudenosaunee law).

Prosperity Must Measure True Wealth
End GDP as the only economic measure. Measure prosperity by soil health, air purity, resource abundance, and collective safety, wellbeing, and joy.

Technology Must Heal, Not Harm
Tools must heal, not extract.

Democracy Must Represent All Life and Non Life
Governments must grant voice to the voiceless—guardians for rivers, mountains, and future generations.

Phoenix Shall Rise from the Ashes
Collapse is not the end—but a birthing pang of the eco-eon.

Closing Covenant

We sign this charter not in ink, but in action—composted into the soil of tomorrow. Let it be unenforceable by the old world’s courts, but binding on the conscience of the new.

Thus begins the great unwriting.

In Earth We Trust.