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Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia

The just cause of reasonably protecting nature has been co-opted into a radical international movement to subvert Western civilization. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Varghese K James, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Read More ›
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Photo: Snæfellsjökull, by Axel Kristinsson from Reykjavík, Iceland, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 628, by NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team.

Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers

The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.” Read More ›
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Photo: A jungle in Panama, by Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mainstream Media Discover “Nature Rights”

Concomitantly, China would never be so stupid as to grant rights to nature. They don’t even grant them to humans. Read More ›
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Photo: Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India, by Fruiticos, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›
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Photo: A woolly monkey, by Evgenia Kononova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ganapathy Kumar via Unsplash.

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

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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An illustration from "The Country of the Blind," by Claude Allin Shepperson / Public domain.

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind

Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Read More ›
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Statue of a young Charles Darwin
Photo: Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

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