PREAMBLE

We are Earth, the people, plants and animals
rains and oceans
breath of the forest and flow of the sea.

We honour Earth as the home of all living things.

We cherish Earth's beauty and diversity of life.

We welcome Earth's ability to renew, as being the basis of all life.

We recognise the special place of Earth's Indigenous People's,
their territories, their customs
and their unique relationship to Earth.

We are appalled at the human suffering, poverty and damage to Earth
caused by inequality of power.

We accept a shared responsibility to protect and restore Earth
and to allow wise and equitable use of resources,
so as to achieve an ecological balance
and new social, economical and spiritual values.

In all our diversity we are one.

Our common home is increasingly threatened.

We thus commit ourselves to the principles of sustainable development,
nothing at all times that particular needs of women,
indigenous peoples, the South,
the disable and all those who are disadvantaged.

We will care for and protect all people and the Earth !

REFERENCES

GJMC 1997: The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council Land Development Objectives. GJMC: Braamfontein.

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