In a speech to the United Nations on Monday, April 21, a day before Earth Day, 2008, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, suggested these 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity:

1-Acabar con el sistema capitalista
1- Stop the capitalist system

2-Renunciar a las guerras
2-Renounce wars

3-Un mundo sin imperialismo ni colonialismo
3-A world without imperialism or colonialism

4-Derecho al agua
4-Right to water

5-Desarrollo de energ
5-Develop clean energies

6-Respeto a la madre tierra
6-Respect for Mother Earth
7-Servicios basicos como derechos humanos
7-Basic services such as human rights

8-Combatir las desigualdades
8-Fight inequalities

9-Promover la diversidad de culturas y econom
9-Promote diversity of cultures and economies

10-Vivir bien, no vivir mejor a costa del otro
10-Living well, not living better at the expense of others

Matthew Brett is the Canadian Dimension weblog editor and a Montreal-based journalist at a weekly newspaper. Read other posts by Canadian Dimension.