Tag: fauna

Artistic image of mother nature. World environment and mother earth day concept

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Ethics
Tagged
, advisor, capitalism, China, collectivism, director, Dr. Seuss, environmental practices, environmentalism, fauna, flora, free market, golden calf, human thriving, indigenous people, inspiration, investment, Milton Friedman, Mother Earth, mountain, nature rights, New Zealand, nonprofit organizations, ownership, Parry Field, prosperity, radical environmentalism, rainforest, river, Russia, shareholder, St. Petersburg, Steven Moe, stewardship, The Lorax, Truffula, wealth}

Should We Put Mother Nature on the Board of Directors?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 9, 2025

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate, Ethics

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Nature can’t “own” anything. That’s a human construct. Moreover, nature would be represented by environmental “flesh flake” radicals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambridge University, communications networks, earth-religion mysticism, Ecuador, fauna, flora, geological features, humans, indigenous people, industrial economies, Judeo-Christian tradition, microbes, mountains, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pacha Mama, Public Humanities, sanitation methods, transportation infrastructures, United Nations, volcanoes, Western civilization}

Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Ecology, Evolution

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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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, americans, China, ecocide, environmental law, fauna, flora, geological features, Green New Deal, human rights, industry, liberty, litigation, Nairobi, 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
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, continuity, design detection, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, fauna, flora, hummingbird, intelligent design, intuition, laws of nature, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, theistic evolution}

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

_{Stephen Dilley
February 14, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, culture, fauna, flora, geological features, lawyers, Mother Nature, nature rights, Pachamama, personhood, private sector, radicalism, virtue-signaling}

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 11, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Life Sciences

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Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, "chilling effect", anti-humanism, bioethicists, fauna, flora, granite outcroppings, Hong Kong, human thriving, humans, medical establishment, misanthropy, natural processes, nature rights, nihilism, prosperity, responsibilities, rights, rivers, speciesism, The Lancet}

World’s Oldest Medical Journal Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

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In other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animals, chimpanzees, dolphins, elephant, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, fauna, human rights, mammals, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, pets, The Last Resort, Western civilization}

New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2021

Bioethics

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Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, eugenics, evolution, fauna, gene editing, humanity, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, Kansas, love, natural selection, soul, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights}

Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human “Improvement”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Peter Clarke claims that I was “clearly fearmongering,” but then admits, “this depiction is fairly accurate.” Okay, then. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 10, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Abraham Lincoln, Amazon River, animal rights, cattle, Civil War, elephants, fauna, flora, humankind, Jonah Goldberg, National Review, nature rights, rivers, Robert E. Lee, Virginia, writ of habeas corpus}

Why the Animal/Nature Rights vs. Human Duties Distinction Matters

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 10, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Says Jonah Goldberg, “One cheer (and maybe two) for non-human personhood.” Read More ›