The First Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights was called for by the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement to formalize the change from the irregular, but officially accepted world standard, the 12-month Gregorian calendar, to the biologically accurate and regular thirteen moon 28-day calendar.

The Resolutions made by the First Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights five years ago speak truer today:

The Congress is resolute in its declaration that unless a rapid and radical change is immediately formulated and introduced over the next four years it is fruitless to speak of any "normal" human expectations within the next 10 to 20 years.

... The purely biogeochemical factors (global warming, climate change, decreasing biodiversity, population explosion, etc.) are all the more volatile when combined with increasing social chaos, aggressive conflict, war, and terrorism. The existence of all of these biogeochemical and social factors is totally incommensurate with and even a function of the world policy which still pursues unbridled economic growth and unceasing industrial production (automobile culture), and which at the same time lacks any comprehensive program for a whole systems solution to this ever-deteriorating crisis.

Driven by the monetary politics of the dominant world order the loser in this unresolved and uncontrolled degradation of the environment and accompanying social chaos is the biosphere itself. Scarcely conscious of its living medium, the biosphere, the human species is caught in a spectacle of supremely materialistic indulgence and incomparable moral laziness, unaware that its collective species-wide suicide is taking the rest of the planet with it.

For this reason, the actual crisis of the planet is worse today than it has ever been, and until the correct whole systems solution is implemented, the planetary biospheric condition only worsens every day. In actuality the deterioration of the biosphere and the deterioration of human values is at an epidemic level. The media, controlled by the forces of monetary politics, gives no admission nor recognition of the wholesale crisis which we alone are creating and which we insist is the best and only way in which we can continue our survival as a species.

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In interest of elevating all thinking and dialogue concerning the actual situation of the planet, the Biospheric Congress now proclaims that the 26th Annual Earth Day be renamed Biospheric Awareness Day (B.A.D.), and that, henceforth, this shall be the name of the day formally commemorated as Earth Day (Planetary Moon 19, April 22.) After the Rio Conference, the "environment" itself became rationalized into a palatable marketing concept called sustainable development. The purpose of Biospheric Awareness Day (B.A.D.) is to inaugurate a new, all encompassing whole systems ideology and level of awareness to supplant the prevailing ideology of monetary politics in which the biosphere is simply a political issue. >> read full report from 1996 >>

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