Extensive "Earth-belts" and Eco-Zoning
It is increasingly important that ecologically protected and safe "corridors" be set aside all around the earth, including in the world's oceans, that effectively prevent further human encroachment and circumscription of the earth's natural habitats. We need to do more than designate a few of the prettiest areas as national parks. It is important to proscribe large tracts of undeveloped land across the entire spectrum of the earth's natural habitats and ecosystems, as effectively off-limits to further human development or encroachment. Peripheral zones about these core regions and corridors can be create that serve to control the flow of traffic and monitor and restrict the kinds of human activities that occur within these designated areas. What nation states construe as their national territory sovereignty and their natural resources are in a global context the property and sovereignty of humankind in stewardship of the earth's natural habitat. Such zoning and partitioning of the earth's natural landscapes can occur at all levels of socio-political organization, beginning in the home, extending through the local community, city and county; up to the state and provincial; and then to the national and international levels (i.e., the World's Oceans, the Arctic and Antarctic, and Outer Space).