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GA Recommendation: Vote AGAINST "The Right to Nature"
OWL recommends voting $AGAINST$ the at-vote resolution, The Right to Nature. The Delegate has been asked to cast their vote accordingly.
Please find below the Office's Analysis for an examination of the resolution and the reasons for the final recommendation.
"The Right to Nature" is a resolution which seeks to "safekeep every individual person's access to nature". Having said this; the perspective of this proposal is clearly oriented towards civil rights, instead of having an environmental point of view as one would think on the first hand due to the proposal's title.
One issue with the resolution is its extremely narrow definition of nature, as it only mentions greenery (plants and/or forests, we suppose), natural features and beaches (which are natural features). This definition excludes fauna (animals) from the definition of nature and are in no point mentioned in the proposal; as well as the stars and constellations, which could be considered as nature.
In OWL's view, this resolution interpreted in several different ways, which could affect nature negatively. What would be a "Right to Nature" when nature is all destroyed by poachers, mass scavengers and careless hikers and tourists who litter all of the ecosystem? After all, they would be free to use their right to do the things that have been written about in the proposal. Or, on the other hand, if all national laws apply as usual, then this proposal would have barely any impact, as national laws would take priority over this WA proposal.
OWL would also like to note that despite the author of the proposal drafting it beforehand on the forums, after a conversation and several critical comments that would have somewhat improved the proposal, a basically original version of said draft was submitted, without taking into account most of said comments.
For these reasons, the Office of World Assembly Legislation advices all member nations to cast a vote AGAINST the resolution.
Analysis by Differences-In-Differences and Vrigny