In EcuadorMother Nature is called Pachamama, and she now has constitutional rights. This story is far from new, in 2008 65% of Ecuador’s population voted in favour of re-writing their constitution to give legal rights to Pachamama. Her new bill of rights was written by a group from Pennsylvania called the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF).

CELDF wrote –  “nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.”

Ecuador’s president Raphael Correa has dubbed his countries new approach “living well” The remarkable thing to ponder in all of this; Ecuador is one of the smallest and poorest countries in South America. Oil production is perhaps the life blood of the economy, and they are sitting on millions of barrels of oil. The oil just happens…