Dark Waters movie was inspired by a typical true story of Robert Billot. It stars Mark Ruffalo as the corporate environmental defense attorney who risked his life, career and family and took on the DuPont company, one of the largest chemical corporations globally, in an environmental suite.
This movie is another example of how screwed our political and legal thinking currently is. Corporations, supported at our country’s founding and championed by some politicians, are permitted to pollute through regulations and regulatory agencies. They do not serve to protect the world around us in the ways we think they do.
Over many decades using political puppets, corporations eroded democratic community rights removing citizens’ rights to make decisions about their communities and ecosystems and about protecting themselves.
Cutting edge science affirms that we are an intimate part of the non-human natural world, that it’s all connected, alive, and evolving. This alternative perspective, one practiced and fostered by Indigenous communities for thousands of years, views nature as our great family. From these understandings, the Rights of Nature (RON) movement is growing around the world and aims to recognise in the legal systems globally that communities and ecosystems are considered as top priorities in decision making. If we cause harm to nature, we harm ourselves, our community, and our family.
Want to protect yourself, your family, community and ecosystem from outside corporate harm? Join us and the RON movement. Comment here or send us an email to info@sccr2017.org.
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