THE
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF
HUMANS AS MARINE MAMMALS
CHARTER
WHEREAS humans in the embryo and until birth
are marine mammals, breathing fluid with the salinity of
primordial seawater, and;
WHEREAS modern Society devotes the first four
years of life to the extinguishment of native abilities to live
in the marine environment and to adapt to the less natural
ability to walk, feed. clothe, house, socialize and otherwise
adapt to a land oriented society, and;
WHEREAS humans that are trained by Society as
land creatures are not necessarily appropriately or adequately
trained to enter the marine environment with an attitude of
marine conservation and environmental ocean stewardship, and;
WHEREAS the increasing numbers of
inappropriately and inadequately trained humans participating in
ocean-related activities may lead to serious marine habitat
degradation, and
WHEREAS technology is replacing individuals
appropriately and adequately trained as marine mammals to live,
work, play, and otherwise adapt for participation as beneficent
creatures in the ocean environment by insensitive and non-human
robotics machines, instruments and devices and;
WHEREAS The Laws of the Land are increasingly
directed to the prohibition of appropriately and adequately
trained and adapted humans as participants in the preservation,
stewardship and enhancement of the ocean environment, and;
WHEREAS humans who are incapacitated for
effective living as land oriented creatures by virtue of
blindness, loss of hearing, paraplegic, quadriplegic, or motor
impaired, are relative to land oriented humans, advantaged as
marine mammals, and;
WHEREAS the ability for Society to learn about
the ocean's regulatory nature on the planet, it's known and as
yet unknown potential resources, and it's recreational and
relaxational value is contingent on an appropriate and adequate
knowledge of that ocean, and;
WHEREAS by virtue of the aforementioned
cultural adaptation, legal constraints and ignorance,
appropriately and adequately trained humans as marine mammals are
a highly endangered species, and;
WHEREAS it has been demonstrated that by proper
education, training and development of prosthetic equipments it
is possible to reeducate, reorient and readapt humans as marine
mammals at any age and regardless of prior
deprivation and;
WHEREAS by virtue of this capability it must be
concluded that the ability of a human to perform as a marine
mammal is a fundamental part of the Common Heritage of Humanity.
NOW THEREFORE there is established The International Institute
for the Advancement of Humans as Marine Mammals for the purpose
of reeducation, reorientation and readaptation of humans to
perform as appropriately and adequately trained marine mammals,
to foster an attitude of proper environmental ocean stewardship
by humans as marine mammals, to promote the development of
facilities and equipments to serve the needs of communities of
humans as marine mammals, to implement laws and regulations which
further survival and growth of communities of humans as marine
mammals, to advance the proper integration of these communities
with the oceanic ecosystem and to otherwise promote and manage
innovation for the benefit of humans as marine mammals.
IN WITNESS THEREOF we have affixed our name this 1st day of
September 1997.
William Randolph Smith wsmith@pixi.com
Rachel Shackelford shackelf@hawaii.edu
Petra Bertilsson-Friedman bertilss@hawaii.edu
Jeff Kuwabara kuwabara@hawaii.edu
Alan Hilton hilton@soest.hawaii.edu
Stephen Barker sbarker533@aol.com
Alice Keesing akeesing@hawaii.edu
James Robert Smith James Robert
Smith
Eric Hill ehill@hawaii.edu
Dave Rubin rubin@hawaii.edu
Kuulei Rodgers srodgers@hawaii.edu
Leslie Cotton lcotton@hawaii.edu