Children and the Earth Charter – 2002

Children, and those who love children, to what shall we compare the Earth Charter? Is it a “Declaration of Interdependence,” a teaching tool, a survival kit, a source of inspiration and meaning? Or is it just another list of Utopian ideals too confusing and long to be helpful? What can we make of a document that among other things asks us to restore the integrity of Earth’s ecological systems, and to eradicate poverty?