What role would a Declaration of Stewardship Responsibility play in promoting human rights and protecting natural resources?
Human rights can only be achieved if the world accepts responsibility for enacting them. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that everyone has “duties to the community” for the realization of rights. Similarly, natural resources will only be protected for perpetuity if people now develop a sense of universal responsibility for stewardship. By codifying the responsibility into a declaration, I hope to stimulate thinking about what individuals and institutions can do to protect the natural resources — and make them available to everyone. Why hasn’t the world already done more to steward natural resources? Much good has been achieved within specific nations. There is a vacuum in natural resource governance. Though resources are central to human flourishing, they are outside the bounds of present government and corporate institutions. In part this is because the occurrence of natural resources is seldom congruent — in space and time — with either corporate or governmental dom
