Deputy Molina affirms that Venezuela legislates in favor of Mother Earth in an environmental forum in Bolivia - MPPRE

Deputy Molina affirms that Venezuela legislates in favor of Mother Earth in an environmental forum in Bolivia

This Friday, during the Forum The Nature of the crisis and Mother Earth, activists, academics and intellectuals spoke and warned in La Paz, Bolivia, about the crisis of capitalism and the environmental crisis that is rapidly advancing towards the sixth extinction of the life on earth.

In the High Level Segment, the deputy and president of the Permanent Commission on Ecosocialism of the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN), Ricardo Molina, highlighted that Venezuela is currently working on an Organic Law on the Rights of Mother Earth, as well as on the updating of the Penal Code, where crimes against nature have been raised.

He explained that within the project carried out by the AN, the creation of a National Observatory for the Registry of Ecological Water Footprint and Greenhouse Gas Emissions is proposed.

“It is a biocentric vision that must be deepened, despite how difficult it is to fight centuries of anthropocentrism (…) We must generate awareness, it can no longer be a matter restricted for scientists, specialists, States; it should be a popular concern in which we can all contribute to ensure the survival of Mother Earth”, he stressed.

Defense of the culture of life

“We must defend the culture of life and not death, the culture of health and not disease, the culture of living beings and not the culture of merchandise”, said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, Freddy Abastoflor, starting the High-level Segment.

Likewise, he asserted that the solution for these crises had to change the civilizational model, consumption and production patterns; “Change the logic of assuming living beings and other natural systems as resources and merchandise.”

We must work on decolonization of the mind

Sandew Hira, Suriname’s director of scientific research, focused his intervention by making a decolonial critique of the discourse around climate change recently made by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in which he tried to cover up the actions of private companies and states.

The tendency of capitalism is dehumanization

The event, framed in the Reencounter with the Pachamama, also served the director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research (India), Vijay Pashad, to raise the need for a “new green pact against imperialism”, which has been showing itself through coups, as in the case of Bolivia, also seeking changes of government in Venezuela -since the election of then President Hugo Chávez- as well as suffocating and blocking Cuba.

On that point, he asserted that “the tendency of capitalism is dehumanization, to unleash the four horsemen of the modern apocalypse: poverty, war, social despair and climate change.”

On the other hand, Nick Estes, co-founder of ‘The Red Nation’ (United States), exposed the challenges that the American indigenous movements are currently facing.

“The struggle of the indigenous movements in the United States has been against the pipelines (…) Also against the imperialist designs of Biden, from whom we have demanded the end of the blockade against Venezuela and Cuba”, he said.