The Environmental Accord
By the ninth century, industrial ingenuity had begun to strain the very lands that sustained it. The Environmental Accord was drafted in response to famine, deforestation, and the slow erosion of ecological balance. It recognized the planet itself as a stakeholder in governance.
This was the first document to assign legal personhood to ecosystems — rivers, forests, and soil gained standing alongside citizens and cooperatives. It mandated restoration over extraction and stewardship over profit, transforming resource management into a moral and civic duty.
Its enactment preserved Koina’s equilibrium for centuries. The Environmental Accord became both law and liturgy, reminding every generation that prosperity without renewal is a false inheritance.
The Environmental Accord
Preamble
In the centuries after Expansion, the Accord grew strong, yet new challenges arose. Forests thinned where too many axes bit, rivers fouled where fields were overworked, and fertile plains trembled under the weight of endless sowing. What had once seemed infinite revealed itself to be fragile. The Council gathered to ask: if knowledge is to be preserved for generations, what good is wisdom without a world to hold it? Thus the Environmental Accord was conceived, to bind not only peoples but the earth itself into The Covenant of preservation.Article I – On the Sacredness of Nature
It is agreed that the lands, waters, skies, and creatures of Koina are not mere resources, but inheritances shared across generations. Forests, rivers, mountains, and plains shall be treated as sacred trusts. Their destruction for greed or neglect is forbidden, and their renewal is a duty borne by all. To dishonor the earth is to imperil the memory of humankind, for no scroll nor monument can survive when the soil beneath it fails.Article II – On the Stewardship of Resources
Each cooperative shall take only what can be replenished, and shall give back where it takes. Forests cut shall be replanted, rivers diverted shall be restored, mines dug shall be closed with care. The earth’s abundance is not infinite, and those who abuse it threaten not only themselves but all of Koina. The Council shall oversee reports of use, and cooperatives found to transgress shall be compelled to restore what they have undone.Article III – On Protected Sanctuaries
Certain places, by their beauty, their abundance, or their spiritual weight, shall be set apart as protected sanctuaries. These forests, groves, wetlands, mountains, and reefs shall be inviolate from harvest, preserved as living temples for future generations. No axe, no plow, nor quarrying hand may profane them. To enter such places is to do so as a guest, in reverence, and to leave them as one found them.Article IV – On the Balance of Peoples and Earth
Human settlement and cultivation must seek balance with the rhythms of the earth. Cities shall not grow without provision for clean water and fertile land. Fields shall not be sown without rotation and rest. The smoke of forges and kilns must not choke the air of villages. Where imbalance occurs, neighbors shall aid neighbors to restore harmony, for a diseased land breeds diseased people.Article V – On the Duty of Teaching
Knowledge of stewardship shall be passed as surely as knowledge of letters and law. Children shall be taught not only to read and reckon, but to plant, to tend, and to respect the cycles of earth and sky. In this way, every generation inherits not just the fruits of the soil but the wisdom to sustain them.Closing
So the peoples of Koina bound themselves to the earth as firmly as to each other. The Environmental Accord proclaimed that memory without soil is hollow, that knowledge without rivers is barren, and that no civilization endures that does not live in balance with the world that cradles it. From that day, preservation meant not only the keeping of scrolls and stones, but also the tending of roots and rivers.
Type
Decree, Governmental
Ratification Date
10 Maat 1142 zc
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