A. Each person, including a person in a future generation, has the right to a clean and healthy environment, including pure water, clean air, healthy ecosystems and a stable climate, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic and healthful qualities of the environment. B. The nation's public natural resources, including its waters, air, flora, fauna and climate, are the common property of all the people, including present and future generations. The states shall do all of the following: 1. Serve as trustees of these resources. 2. Conserve, protect and maintain these resources for the benefit of all the people. C. The rights prescribed in this section are inherent, inalienable and indefeasible and are among those rights reserved to all the people. This state may not infringe on these rights. This section and the rights prescribed in this section are self-executing.
Our Constitution should protect the environmental interests of future generations. No generation should have a right to deplete the planet of resources. Some American tribes would make plans for 7 generations because they knew their actions would impact those future generations. We need to incorporate the same approach to our natural resources. Our existence depends on it.
The economy is not neutral and is not more important than the environment. Companies who create pollution must find ways to prevent it in the first place, and then have reserve funds to clean up their mess when done. Directing Boards that run polluting & environmentally damaging companies should be held individually responsible for the damage their stewardship causes.
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