Govern terraforming, geoengineering, planetary reconstruction and long-horizon ecological intervention where harms, benefits and rights may extend across generations, species, substrates and jurisdictions.
Core structure
1. Irreversible or planetary-scale ecological intervention requires heightened authorization, evidence, alternatives analysis and long-horizon review.
2. Baseline ecological conditions, uncertainty, model assumptions and provenance must be recorded before material intervention; UNKNOWN cannot be silently converted into a favorable default.
3. Terraforming, restoration, occupation or ecological investment does not by itself create sovereignty, total ownership or unrestricted extraction rights.
4. Existing resident persons and materially affected communities require meaningful representation and, where rights or habitats are directly transformed, consent/participation safeguards proportionate to impact.
5. Long-horizon duties extend to foreseeable future persons and successor communities; present authorities must disclose irreversible burdens, lock-in and foreclosed alternatives.
6. Non-person ecosystems, species and biospheres may receive legal protection based on ecological function, rarity, irreversibility and stewardship duties without being falsely declared legal persons solely for convenience.
7. High-risk geoengineering and terraforming should use staged, bounded or reversible pilots where technically feasible before full deployment.
8. Cross-border, orbital and interplanetary ecological externalities require notice, evidence sharing, impact allocation and remedy mechanisms; jurisdictional distance does not erase responsibility.
9. Operators responsible for high-risk planetary intervention may be required to maintain restoration capacity, reserve resources, bonds or equivalent recovery commitments proportionate to plausible harm.
10. Monitoring must continue for a duration appropriate to ecological timescale, with versioned models, public/auditable records and triggers for pause, correction or rollback where feasible.
11. Emergency climate/ecological intervention requires a defined emergency, least-harmful feasible option, bounded authority, sunset and post-event review; emergency necessity does not become permanent ecological sovereignty.
12. When habitation, survival, biodiversity, cultural memory and planetary preservation conflict, decisions require proportionality, alternatives, distributional analysis and explicit treatment of irreversible loss rather than a single optimization score.