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- Àlex Guillamón: Entrepobles. XR Barcelona activist. The example of Ecuador.

-Maite Mompó: She has a law degree and specializes in Ecological Ethics, Sustainability and Environmental Education. He currently directs the Stop Ecocide campaign of the Protectores de la Tierra movement.-Mª Teresa Vicente Giménez: Full Professor of Philosophy of Law. Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature, University of Murcia. ILP Legal Personality Mar Menor.

-Daniel Turón. Moderator. Eco-psychologist. Master's Degree in Human Rights and Citizenship, UB.

"Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, Eurocentrism, now converted into global neoliberal capitalism, has considered nature as resources to be exploited from which to extract "raw materials": fish, energy, minerals, wood, food... Nature it has also been used as a place to dump our waste, often without considering the impacts on the human condition and future as our lives depend on a healthy, habitable and biodiversity-rich ecosystem.Today these environmental challenges continue, but a new idea inspired by ancestral indigenous cultures can provide the planet with a solution based on rights.The Earth and its ecosystems as subjects of rights.Companies, of course, already have them as human ecosystems that they are.

The evolution of the Rule of Law in the 21st century has to respond to ecological injustice from the new paradigm of ecological Justice. Ecological Justice is a new model that allows giving the ecosystem what corresponds to it for its full development according to its vital and functional needs. And this new model of ecological Justice will have to be carried out with the transition to the social State of Law to the ecological State of Law, supported by the recognition of the complementary relationship of human beings with the natural environment or ecosystem, and with future generations. The Popular Legislative Initiative on the Proposition of Law for the recognition of Legal Personality of the Laguna del Mar Menor and its Basin has been admitted for processing by the Congress of Deputies, and today in the phase of collecting 500,000 signatures so that it can continue its processing parliamentary

The Rights of Nature, which some also call the Rights of Mother Earth, can be approached from various interdisciplinary perspectives: philosophy, anthropology, ecology... but, in a schematic way, we can group the different contributions into four currents: the indigenous, the scientific, ethical and legal. Interrelated currents that can greatly enrich each other...

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