The Magna Carter 3.1 Charter

Citizens of the world, arise and consider.

We are a people who proclaim that we live in a world guaranteeing religious and civil liberties, equal in both physical and digital life.

Declaring these equal opportunities to all our citizens, our resolve is to pursue the happiness and prosperity of every person who dwells upon our planet.

Ours is a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. It is a world where anyone, anywhere may express their beliefs, however singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Therefore, we also hold these truths to be self-evident: that all citizens are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty, and independence.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among the people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organising its powers in such form as shall seem most likely to effect their safety and freedoms.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.

The science is clear and this charter’s code is written thus — the facts are incontrovertible, and it is unconscionable to us that our children and grandchildren should bear the terrifying brunt of an unprecedented disaster of our own making.

We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with around 200 species becoming extinct each day. Humans cannot continue to violate the fundamental laws of nature or of science with impunity. If we remain on our present course, the future for our species is bleak.

When a government wilfully abrogates its responsibility to protect its citizens from harm and to secure the future for generations to come, it has failed in its most essential duty of stewardship. The ‘social contract’ has been broken, and it is therefore not only our right, but our moral duty to bypass the Government’s inaction and flagrant dereliction of duty, and so we must rebel to defend life itself.

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