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Why Natural Rights Governance Is the Only Viable Path to Protect People and Planet . The world has been talking about the language of the Paris Agreement promises, pathways, and promises of temperature control for almost ten years now. However, the climate is still disintegrating. Storms are worse; droughts extended and displaced more permanently. Paris was a treaty of intent; missing moral architecture is Natural Rights Led Governance (NRLG). Nationally Determined Contri

Urbanization is considered a sign of advancement. Skyscrapers, transportation networks, and digital lines of communication are often regarded as symbols of progress. But behind these shiny facades, more than 1 billion people in the world live in slums characterized by deprivation, the UN Statistics Division says. From Kibera in Nairobi to Dharavi in Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, slums remind us that rapid urban expansion is not synonymous with better living conditions.

Photo by the Author The Rohingya crisis is not a new tragedy; it is a recurring wound in the conscience of South and Southeast Asia. For generations, the Rohingya people, an ethnic Muslim minority native to Myanmar’s Rakhine State, have lived as a community stripped of belonging. The crisis deepened in August 2017 when a brutal military operation in Rakhine drove over 700,000 Rohingya across the Naf River into Bangladesh. It was not the first exodus; smaller waves had occurr

By a Citizen Who Walked the Streets and Read the Skies I remember the smell of tear gas more vividly than the monsoon that came three...

Part 2 As I argued in the first part of the theory on Natural Rights Led Governance (NRLG), the Development–Destruction Trap exposes how modern governance structures are enabling intergenerational harm and planetary injustice by prioritizing GDP growth and resource extraction over life-supporting systems. This second part engages in a necessary alternative: the paradigm of Nature’s Sovereignty (NS). Here, I bring forward the exact formulations and propositions articulated in

Illustrated by Arif Iqbal Sajek Valley is a scenic hill destination location in the Rangamari District of Bangladesh, known for its sunning view, cloud-covered hills and indigenous culture.Nature insights had the pleasure to go into a deep conversation with this paradise on earth.  Nature Insights :   Welcome to a not-so-casual chat between your truly ‘Nature Insights’, Your  overly enthusiastic nature geek and the one and only Sajek Valley! …… a Dramatic, slightly grumpy, b