Equity: The Shortest Way to Global Sustainability

Abstract

My work on sustainability has been guided by some basic principles including the recognition that all members of the Earth community, human and non-human, have the right to sustenance, to food and water, to a safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space. Resources vital to the sustenance must stay in the commons. The right to sustenance is a natural right because it is the right to live. These rights are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain life.