Tag: ecocide

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 2, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, agency, Andes, climate, ecocide, environmental policy, environmentalism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, geological features, glaciers, Great Lakes, human beings, Ice Age, India, indigenous peoples, legal rights, National Geographic, natural entities, nature rights, Pachamama, PLOS Climate, public policy, religion, science journals, snow}

Climate Science Journal Trumpets Glaciers’ “Right to Exist”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2026

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate

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Glaciers are made up of snow that over millennia compacted into ice. They grow or shrink based on climate. They are geological features. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, consciousness, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, human rights, Iceland, nature rights, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith}

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, americans, China, ecocide, fauna, flora, geological features, human rights, industry, liberty, litigation, nature rights, The Guardian, United Kingdom, United Nations, Western civilization}

Granting Rights to Nature Is Being Negotiated at the United Nations

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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“Nature rights” and “ecocide” are part of the effort among radicals to destroy Western civilization, the central principle of which is human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortionists, anti-humanism, cancer, David Attenborough, diagnosis, ecocide, ecosystem, electricity, food, fuel, humans, Ireland, Jack Kevorkian, Slate, stewardship, terminal illness}

Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, crime, ecocide, environmentalism, genocide, nature rights, Nazis, pollution, Pope Francis, The Guardian, The Hague, United Nations, University College London}

“Ecocide” — Drive to Make Environmental Damage Legal Equivalent of Genocide Accelerates

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2021

Bioethics

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If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Argentina, Bolivia, ecocide, Ecuador, environmentalists, exploration, genocide, geological features, glaciers, human rights, mining, Moon, nature rights, Pakistan, Pope Francis, Science (journal)}

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2021

Bioethics

2}

It is easy to mock this movement and to not take it seriously. That’s how it will win. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 5, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, authoritarianism, climate change, critical thinking, ecocide, economics, fishing, genocide, global warming, media, medical professionals, medical students}

Ideological Takeover of Science Continues

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2021

Medicine

4}

Declaring a “climate emergency” would open the door to rule by diktat over environmental policy. You can envision the authoritarian possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, Amazon, Brazil, capitalism, China, Communists, Donald Trump, ecocide, evolution, fish, free market, genocide, grass, human rights, insects, mice, nature rights, New York Times, people, snakes, The Hague}

With Amazon Fires as a Pretext, “Ecocide” Advocacy Goes Mainstream

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2019

Bioethics

4}

Radical environmentalists intend to thwart human thriving in order to “save the planet.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations}

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism

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Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 16, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-humanism, autotrophs, book reviews, ecocide, environmentalism, fruit, genocide, New York Times, peas, rationality, science, sexual reproduction, Switzerland, The Hague, trees}

No, Trees Are Not People Too

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2018

Bioethics, Botany

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Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›