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     The "Declaration of Interdepenence"


        Five members of the David Suzuki
     Foundation team wrote the following
     Declaration of  Interdependence in 1992 for  
     the United Nations' Earth Summit in Rio de
     Janeiro. In 2001, Finnish composer
     Pehr Henrik Nordgren wrote his Symphony no.
     6 "Interdependence" based on the   
     declaration, which also served as lyrics to the
     piece. It was performed for the first time in
     Sendai, Japan in December, 2001.



     *This We Know We are the earth, through the   
    plants and animals that nourish us.

    *We are the rains and the oceans that flow
     through our veins.

    *We are the breath of the forests of the land,
    and the plants of the sea.

    *We are human animals, related to all other  
    life as descendants of the firstborn cell.

    *We share with these kin a common history,      
    written in our genes.

    *We share a common present, filled
    with uncertainty. And we share a common
    future, as yet untold.

    *We humans are but one of thirty million
    species weaving the thin layer of life
    enveloping the world.

    *The stability of communities of living things
    depends upon this diversity. Linked in that     
    web, we are interconnected -- using,
    cleansing, sharing and replenishing the
    fundamental elements of life.

    *Our home, planet Earth, is finite; all life            
    shares its resources and the energy from the    
    sun, and therefore has limits to growth. For       
    the first time, we have touched those limits.

    *When we compromise the air, the water, the
    soil and the variety of life, we steal from the      
    endless future to serve the fleeting present.

    *This We Believe Humans have become so         
    numerous and our tools so powerful that we      
    have driven fellow creatures to extinction,         
    dammed the great rivers, torn down ancient     
    forests, poisoned the earth, rain and wind,        
    and ripped holes in the sky.

    *Our science has brought pain as well as joy;
    our comfort is paid for by the suffering of
    millions. We are learning from our mistakes,
    we are mourning our vanished kin, and
    we now build a new politics of hope.

    *We respect and uphold the absolute need
    for clean air, water and soil. We see that
    economic activities that benefit the few while
    shrinking the inheritance of many are wrong.  
    And since environmental degradation erodes   
    biological capital forever, full ecological           
    and social cost must enter all equations of         
    development.

    *We are one brief generation in the long              
    march of time; the future is not ours to erase.   
    So where knowledge is limited, we will                 
    remember all those who will walk after us,
    and err on the side of caution.

    *This We Resolve All this that we know and         
    believe must now become the foundation of      
    the way we live. At this turning point in our        
    relationship with Earth, we work for an                
    evolution: from dominance to partnership;        
    from fragmentation to connection; from              
    insecurity, to
    interdependence.                                 
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