Democracy enables workers to unionize, protest, and shape legislation so that a system that balances their rights with other complex interests forms. There are issues with this system but centralized proposals addressing exploitative systems turn into dictatorships, and are still abusive. Only broad distributions of power to those being exploited have succeeded in changing systems to a new more equal and fair stability.
Thus, to eliminate of exploitation of people, we need to reverse the trend of increasingly consolidated political, military, and economic power. FURTHERMORE our systems currently only consider humans to have rights, directly endorsing abuses and horrific atrocities toward anything considered ‘nonhuman’ or part of ‘nature’. This happens throughout history when certain people are considered nonhuman, or even now when human rights are not justly accorded. And as for the Earth, our state of climatic misery attests well enough to our exploitation.
There is no reason why we should endow companies with rights but not nature. Protecting the Earth and living systems requires representing those interests and voices DIRECTLY in our judicial, legislative, and executive systems. Enfranchising the Earth is the first step toward ending this exploitation.
