All animals, and all species of life, deserve the right to life and to live. But in saying that, species, including us, can depend on others for food. The following should be read with this in mind.

In order for the human species to live in harmony with other species, and as a caretaker species of this planet, we will inevitably and eventually draft an internationally recognized bill of rights for sentient and non-sentient life. To begin with, such a charter would be adopted country by country. But eventually all nations will accept it.

This letter would have for some species the same rights that humans grant each other. Some countries on Earth already have laws based on such rights. Most countries have at least anti-cruelty laws. But the laws that specifically allow all life to survive in harmony, free from environmental terrorism, are yet to be drafted.

People who violate those laws that have not yet been introduced in the future will likely be dealt with accordingly, as one would expect. But at the moment such laws are culturally based and varied. For example, elephant poachers in Africa can receive an extreme sentence of death in the field by environmental law enforcers. On the contrary, international law is different. These laws must be simplified globally. And, through rational thought, it is foreseeable that one day such environmental laws may take into account the activities of chemical companies, weapons manufacturers, environmental polluters, loggers and much more. That is predictable.
The scope of these laws will depend on the seriousness of the situation and how people act now. But it’s already serious.
There is a future where hunters and some people will be labeled as environmental terrorists. Their actions speak loudly about what they are doing. They will fit the label. But that label would really be decided by a representative panel of the United Nations, or some other body. Many hunters may not agree, but an act of terror is not defined as perpetrated solely against the human species. And the definition of mass murder does not have to be limited to just people. The abnormal and unholy destructive drive that hunters and some individuals display in killing other species will one day be recognized for what it really is.

And a panel or body of thought like the previous one, which is in charge of saving the environment of this planet, will also introduce retroactive laws. This is probably unavoidable. We already have the example of retroactive laws in place for sexual predators.

The ungodly urge to destroy other life is an urge that must be repressed, regardless of the victim’s age, gender, race, or species. In most countries, the unnatural act of sodomy, sexual slavery and much more is already illegal, regardless of species. So is cruelty. Naming interspecies murder for what it is is simply an extension of existing thought and law.

More conspicuously, such retroactive laws could dispossess those who have inherited wealth, made of harming other species. It is doubtful that this will be soon, but it will happen one day.

If our world is damaged to such a critical degree by unlabeled environmental criminals of the past, it could be that their heirs are being used to get the planet out of the trap we’re slipping into.

For example, who will pay for the $350 billion needed to clean the Pacific Ocean of plastic? The cost must be paid at least in part by those who benefited from the destruction of the ocean. The general public has to be there, but it also has to be the companies and their officials who benefited from it. Your benefit will likely be included.

Probably, in the future it will be the heirs of those who profit from the destruction of the environment who will be made to pay.

Now, what’s going to happen here in the future is especially interesting. Will environmental terrorism laws allow law enforcement agencies to pursue environmental criminals unimpeded across international borders? Chances are those laws will, one day. Some forward-thinking countries already have cross-border laws, which will be invoked. They can already do this, regardless of what other nations object to. Others will follow.

And for those who object to the above, after a little research, they will no doubt be known for what they are.

This could all be forty years from now, but it’s definitely predictable. Environmental terrorism has to be dealt with.