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Hannity Rails Against Van Jones ‘Mission’ to Secure ‘Human Rights for Mother Nature’

Hannity Rails Against Van Jones Mission to Secure Human Rights for Mother NatureIf I told you there was an organization out there “building a global alliance of experts from around the world to bring forth the universal adoption and implementation of Rights of Nature,” would you be surprised that former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones in on its board? There is. And he is.

So what exactly is “universal adoption and implementation of Rights of Nature?” According to the organization, Pachamama, and its website, it’s a legal concept. Or as Sean Hannity explained it on his show last night, Van Jones is on a “mission” to secure “human rights for mother nature:”

Foxnews.com’s George Russell explains more about Jones’s new calling:

Jones is taking up the challenge as one of the newest board members of an obscure San Francisco New Age-style organization known as the Pachamama Alliance, which has been creating a global movement to make human rights for Mother Nature an international reality — complete with enforceable laws — by 2014. The Rio summit will create an important midpoint for that campaign.

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The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature “is working to build a movement of millions of educated and inspired individuals, with thousands of successful cases of enforceable Rights of Nature legislation having been enacted at local and national levels, by the end of 2014,” according to the Pachamama website.

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The movement that Jones has joined shares its goals with some of the more radical governments represented at the United Nations, notably Ecuador and Bolivia, both nations with substantial territories in the Amazon Basin, and both with close ties to the socialist government of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

Additionally, Russell explains exactly what “Rights of Nature” looks like:

Among other things, the Pachamama Alliance claims that through the Pachamama Foundation—a “sister organization” it created in 1997 among native peoples of the Amazon Basin — it was instrumental in helping to install the same “fundamental rights for nature” it espouses into the constitution of Ecuador in 2008.

The constitution includes such provisos as “Nature has the right to be completely restored,” and it mandates the government ban “introduction of organisms and organic and inorganic material that can alter in a definitive way the national genetic heritage,” among other things.

According to Russell, the Rights of Nature movement could be at the forefront of a U.N.-sponsored global summit on “sustainable development” in Rio de Janeiro in May 2012.

You can read more from Russell here, and read more about the Pachamama Alliance here.

Comments (118)

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:01am

    Van Jones needs to be committed to an insane asylum.

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  • Coralchristie
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:58am

    So Van Jones and his ilk are all espousing that we “worship” mother earth. Do you think that our government taking God out of our daily lives has anything to with finding mother earth as a replacement and giving Van and like thinkers an organization and laws to have power to rule over us?

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  • matt708
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:49am

    they are all crazy and need to be put in a mental hospital and then they can listen to each other and not bother the rest of us with this trash

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    • Bigliardi
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 2:12pm

      And trash it is matt…..If a human could be sued by a grizzly bear for injuries incurred in a hunting episode, Could a human, innocently walking in the woods, enjoying nature, who is attacked by a grizzly, sue the grizzly….And would the grizzly be entitled to a “jury of his peers..” These folks are truly certifiably insane….

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  • ClockKing
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:49am

    Van Jones = Modern Day Slaver.

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  • randy
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:47am

    OMG at 6:28 did this woman say don’t be a denyasaurus guys. Where do they come up with these catchy phrases? LOL

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:46am

    If we allow “mother nature” to protect herself with no man made pollutants, and she does such a good job on her own, what happened to the dinasours? Who killed them? Wasn’t man rubbing sticks together. We have no control over climate change dummy. Talk to GOD: He controls environments and hopefully He will choose to make these idiots extinct too. They’re more dangerous than REX.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:38am

    i am not sure, but i think Hannity is starting to wake up and catch on that this great country is being over run with communist idiots , why now, Glenn has been preaching about Van J ones for a long time ,has he just now woke up and figured out who this guy is???? don’t get me wrong, i am glad he is exposing him and his left wing group. but come on,Hannity does not usually do this kind of journalism, he has started here as of late, i just wonder how long he will continue,are will he do what O Reilly has done,and began to soften up?? just maybe with Glenn leaving, Hannity sees an opportunity to increase his rating,i would hope he was doing it to help save our country,and not for power gain, again, i am glad he is starting to understand what is really happening, and i hope he stays with it, but only time will tell.

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  • dgboy
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:37am

    Human Rights for Mother Nature?????
    This has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my lifetime. And anybody who seriously entertains this crap needs their head examined. Watch your children, I see, if it isn’t already happening, the schools brainwashing our kids with this idiotic crap.
    I though I have heard everything!!!!

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  • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:35am

    What does Hannity know? His skill is spewing opinions into a microphone? Wow. Impressive, most impressive.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:45am

      So I take it that you agree with Betsy …. Now I know of two mentally challenged people.. I’m sure there are alot more.. We need to build more asylums….

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    • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:00am

      I didn’t say that, I simply mean that Hannity has no credentials other than talking into a microphone. Does he have a degree in any thing? His opinion is no more valuable than yours or mine. He’s famous, that’s all.

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  • Bushie
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:29am

    Van Jones doesn’t know what nature is. If he did, he would know he belongs in the jungle not in a civilize country that’s his nature habitat.

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  • noleftturn
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:24am

    Why can’t we submit a comment in all caps?

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  • noleftturn
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:23am

    Idiots!!!

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  • POdVet
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:10am

    “introduction of organisms and organic and inorganic material that can alter in a definitive way the national genetic heritage,”

    Damned if that doesn’t sound like some of the most racist crap I Have ever heard!

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  • seeker9
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:04am

    Is this the final nail? If you eat or live in ahouse, you are a criminal. Social justice can be applied, so any one that does not agree with the authority can be punished.

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  • historypaper
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:58am

    It’s not in the news yet, but, Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has been having some problems with the guy that truly signs his check. George Soros states that “Jones is off the mark” and continues to whisper “Jones dropped the ball and we only had one change” Van Jones is wandering around looking for a crowd. When Van Jones Talks, Nobody listens. Obama Pelosi Reid Binden Clinton

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:43am

      @historypaper, we can only hope that the lefty morons will start eating themselves from the bottom up inside out, i hope the are really hungry, because there are a lot of these communist loving idiots out here.

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  • jblovesAmerica
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:57am

    Van Jones is a garbage man.
    his next stop is the dump
    after the white house is cleaned out, this guy goes back underground

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  • SheriS
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:53am

    I saw Hannity’s show and Betsy is a nutcase just like Van Jones! I guess Mother Nature is crying her eyes out as she has no rights! What a bunch of garbage these progressive idiots truly are! Maybe we need to make sure they all have great psychatric care or have a place in the nearest “nut house”!

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  • misteryuck
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:51am

    Another watermelon organization… GREEN on the outside… RED on the inside…

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:48am

    Thanks for stating the obvious, Sean. Where were you before Glenn Beck exposed this guy?

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:42am

      Nick , Sean vetted obama before Glenn ever did.. Go back a few years and you will see Sean exposed Vjones before Glenn did.. Glenn actually made it front and center ,but Sean did expose all the radicals before Obama was elected.. it’s just that no one listened..

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:47am

    We learned from friends who were missionaries in Bolivia that Pachamama is yet another of the ever-increasing number of “false gods”. The natives in the mts. there LOVE to worship “mother earth” at every opportunity so they can get blindly drunk and beyond. The ceremonies are degrading, filthy and reprehensible, rather like vjones and his cronies.

    “pachamama alliance” is NOTHING MORE than a worship of satan. It has NOTHING to do with “mother earth”.

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:26am

      you hit the nail on the head…..these people are controlled by Satan. Directly or indirectly. They either worship him or are being tricked by him and are atheists.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:13am

      Do you honestly believe that? That people can be ‘controlled by Satan’ in the first place, and that the environmentalist movements are controlled by these supposed Satan worshippers?

      That is insane!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:46am

    Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:23am

      Amen!

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    • Well-Armed-Lamb
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:31am

      Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
      23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
      24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
      25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

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    • starman70
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:46am

      You and Well-Armed-Lamb NAILED IT. These liberal leftist environmental loonies would have us to close churches, eliminate the Bible, destroy the memory of our LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST and then worship the ancient Earth Goddess GAIA. He and his followers should move to a remote village in Ghana and then convince his followers to drink the Kool Aid.

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  • CatholiConservative
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:44am

    So, under this, if you lived in a cabin in the woods & a bear decided to ‘move in’ does that bear have equal rights to your house- or better yet- if we have equal rights to nature can we do the same yo the bear?
    Does mother nature need to pay taxes? -if she has equal rights that should include equal responsibility – maybe she could pay taxes on her enormous income ( everything we give the guvmint) in Alaskan oil!

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:17am

      How about the termites that eat your house, are they going to sue the homeowner or Orkin if you kill them? I know you payed for the wood but you could have used concrete. Wood is termite food.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:41am

    I am going to sue mother nature for the damage she has done recently. SHE MUST PAY. I say we even put her in jail.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:38am

      Yeah and I’d like to see her put grass in her gas tank and drive away.. What a dope she is..

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  • emertz8413
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:39am

    Push, push, push and then poke and nudge, that’s all these green people know how to do. God is up in heaven crying, we’ve gone back to the stone age!! We are called as Christians to take care of our environment for the next generation, not worship it!!!!

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    • old white guy
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:50am

      yes the stone age is where we would have to be to satisfy the green morons. the problem is they do not expect to have to do as we do. they will continue to use all the modern conveniences just as they do now. it is do as i say not as i do. always has been always will be for the commies. make no mistake these people are all commies. nice word commies. it kind of covers the whole spectrum from green to russian red.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:20am

      This is the hubris of man, man attempting to give God rights he’s never lost.

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:38am

    More shocking than Van Jones (we already know his m.o.) was the leftist woman on the panel who defended all this but wouldn’t answer a direct question – just her talking points. I think they go to school for that. Claims to be a friend of Jones and apparently hangs on his every word. How do “sane” people agree with all this garbage?

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 7:56am

      @grandmaof5 ~~
      You “nailed it” on the word “sane”. They are not sane. At all. They have been duped, probably drugged (on hate?), and certainly are satan’s followers. They may not know that yet, but one day their eyes WILL BE OPENED and they WILL SEE what they have done.

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    • DJR
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:05am

      There’s nothing sane about her or Van Jones. Don’t be a Fossil fool? Nice catch phrase.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:11am

      DJR, she did have a number of cliche’ phrases rehearsed, probably taken out of the Van Jones playbook for interviews.

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    • missionarydad
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:14am

      Conservatives care much more about the earth and are much better stewards of it. Go to any tea party gathering or the Glenn Beck Rally on Aug 28th. And then the Liberal Insanity Rally and compare who trashes Mother Earth the most. Case Closed! It’s all a big smoke screen and a front to push a much more sinister agenda.

      http://www.saywhatyoureallymean.blogspot.com

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:14am

      Didn’t that woman look like she just came from her weekly hypnotist appointment? She is not in her right mind.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:18am

      Man, I hope I don’t get subpoened by all those spiders, whose houses I destroyed over the years. Exterminators would be in REAL trouble.

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:32am

      Van Jones needs to be deported to the deep jungles of the Amazon

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:35am

      I saw this last night and I couldn’t stop laughing at that lady.. Really I was actually laughing out loud…She and anyone that follow this thinking are CRAZY… Communist came out of HIS OWN MOUTH .. geez with the facts right on tape she still doesn’t believe it.. Betsy do you know how many children die from abortion ? what i thought no answer, huh ? It works both ways Betsy.. DONT BE FOSSIL FOOLISH.. DRILL BABY DRILL !!!!!

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:43am

      WOW! Now the Blaze says I’m posting too fast and not posting my comments? Does Glenn have a leftie as a moderator? Anyway this is getting stupid, if Cass Sunstien doesn‘t want us to eat meat and Van Jones says you can’t kill a plant, what is left to eat? I guess we need to get rid of people.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:44am

      By their logic, if there were no humans, the climate would never change and there would be no drought in west Texas. They really need to study history more.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:52am

      Of course, who defends “mother nature” in all her anger and destrucion? Katrina comes to mind. How does “mother nature” pay for all the damage she causes? Or is it that we have to work with “mother nature,” she doesn’t have to work with us?
      I would hazard to guess these people (Thank GOD!) have no children, have never worked a real job, and have no sense of reality.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:56am

      Sean Hannity

      You are dragging up the rear. Get current or find another venue. Or maybe you are only willing to speak out AFTER the horse is out of the barn and others i.e. BECK have taken the lead and brought the obvious to light. That way you cover your butt and have no risk in getting attacked by the Progressives or sponsors. Your not cutting edge. Your just a radio DJ entertainer type.. Nothing new coming from your broadcast.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:12am

      Anyone who believes a bug has rights, is insane. These people need medical attention.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:12am

      @Grandmaof5:

      I have been warning people of this for some weeks now, mentioning it to the Blaze tips as well when it appeared on so many foreign news websights; This matter needs to be stopped, and any and all involvment we have with the UN brought to an absolute end. All the matter here will allow the UN to gain full sovreignty over the American land and anything they want to force down our throats they will be free and lawfully able to do so.

      Once again we see the administration having sold us out.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:15am

      As with all Van Jones interventionists, Betsy’s “arguments” center around Belief–belief that whatever Mother Nature is dishing up for us at any given time is caused by our bad behavior. This is set up like a sect, and Van Jones knows this even if Betsy Rosenberg does not. She connects Texas wildfires and Spring tornados with global warming–because…..? Because she believes it could be true. This is not science–just another disciple being used.

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    • MontanaRob
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:51am

      Yes, they are pushing to depopulate the Earth of “it’s most damaging element, humans”!!!

      No, I don’t think that many, if not most of them, will ever wake up and “GET IT”. I have had conversations with a number of these idiots and they are devoid of the ability to reason. It is all a matter of indoctrination and the stifling of the ability and the opportunity to dissent.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:31am

      Keep your crazy ideas to yourself …..
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5639310216/in/photostream/

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    • Issachar
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:19pm

      First off, the Earth is NOT human, second how could we give rights to something we are not in control over? These people are incidious, my turds have more rights to being ‘human’ than they do – COMMUNIST TRAITORS ALL!!!!!!!!!! They gotta go too, right behind Odimba

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:32pm

      thats nothing, the founder Lynn Twist and Van Jones both are on a council that has a program in our schools. It is called Challenge Day. Where they urge kids to “Be The Change”It costs the schools $6,400 for two days. It is a six hour program for two days each where the kids and parents are not able to leave the room. It teaches diversity, but Van Jones has said in the past that a workshop out in California, called the White Supremecy workshop should be manditory for all white activist so that the progressive movement would be unstopable. Also, Lynn Twist and another board member on Challenge Day Marshall Roseberg are planning a world wide womens rally headed up by George Soros. Nothing wrong there right?
      http://www.challengeday.org
      http://www.gsofv.org
      Look it up and save it to your computer
      I looked up what these people are about and they dont even want us in small cars, they want us on bikes. They believe there is no difference between a human and a tree. A tree has just as many rights as a human. They are into collective wisdom, mindfull drumming. Peter Yarrow on the baord is a sex convict who was pardoned by Jimmy Carter. The majority of them gave to the Democrat party or didnt give at all. What do they want with our kids???????Please find out if they have been to your school. Their website said they have gotten to one million kids

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    • abc
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 1:29pm

      We don’t need laws of this kind. We need classical law and economics, which already has provisions to protect the commons. The problem is that they are not being enforced.

      Shame on those who deny the science around global warming. Shame on those who lobby against enforcement of existing laws against air pollution. Shame on those who rail against gas taxes. Those people are bigger problems than Van Jones, although his efforts are also misguided.

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    • Agentuntomyself
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 1:39pm

      @abc,
      I agree that laws about pollution, etc. should be enforced instead of thinking up new ones. So why wouldn’t someone as seemingly intelligent as Van Jones not focus on fixing that? Why promote human rights for nature? I think misguided is giving him a pass…

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    • abc
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Agent, I’m not giving him a pass. I cannot read his mind, so I don’t know what is motivating him. I can only see the impact of his actions. His actions are redundant, so the result is wasted time. But the companies and individuals that deny or resist remediation of market externalities like pollution do far more damage than mere redundancy. They contributed to childhood asthma, mercury poisoning, and famine. These are bigger “crimes,” when viewed objectively.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 2:34pm

      Jones is nothing more than a ‘useless eater.’

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 3:11pm

      ANONYMOUS T RELEVANT, my husband too, not to mention the termites, rats, ants, roaches, etc. Wonder if the ACLU will come to ya‘ll’s (looks funny) defense?

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    • waggie
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:48pm

      Ummm, I think human rights are for humans. (psssst, hey Van! Mother Nature isn’t a real person!) Duh!

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