Tag: Lake Erie

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, climate change, conservation, currency, Great Salt Lake, Harvard Divinity School, inflation, Lake Erie, mushrooms, nature rights, nature worship, New York Times, personhood, rights, squirrels, United States, Utah, Western civilization}

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›

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Date
July 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animal welfare, courts, elephants, environmentalism, Florida, glaciers, human thriving, humans, Lake Erie, lakes, lawsuit, nature rights, New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Orange County, rivers}

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

_{Science and Culture
July 16, 2022

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, college students, ecosystem, Enterprise, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, New York State, Orange County, radicals, Toledo, watershed}

“Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 18, 2022

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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Based on the chat-room comments, I was viewed by the college students who watched as the skunk at the party for defending human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-humanism, conservation, Earth Day, ecosystem, environmentalism, human benefit, Lake Erie, litigation, nature rights, pollution, regulation, Science (journal)}

Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2020

Bioethics

3}

The activists are right about one thing. Rights of nature would be far more effective in impeding development and extracting wealth from the land than the current system. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, California, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Erin O’Donnell, forests, Lake Erie, nature rights, npr, Ohio, Toledo, University of Melbourne, watershed}

NPR Discovers the “Nature Rights” Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 9, 2019

Bioethics

4}

If “nature rights” laws become widespread, there will be plenty of money to pay lawyers to sue developers and resource-using enterprises into the dirt. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, activists, ecosystem, Green New Deal, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, Ohio, pollution, prosperity, science journals, Toledo}

Ohio Bans “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 20, 2019

Bioethics

2}

Be it noted that “nature rights” is not aimed primarily at preventing pollution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-humanism, Bolivia, Ecuador, forests, guns, human rights, Lake Erie, lakes, municipalities, nature rights, New Zealand, Politics, right to life, rivers, Science (journal), Texas, United States, wildlife}

Nature Rights: “It Can’t Happen Here”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2019

Bioethics

3}

Now former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, a very influential voice on the left, has endorsed the extreme ideological agenda. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Canada, corporations, environmental movement, global warming, humans, Lake Erie, liberty, litigation, mosquitoes, nature rights, orcas, responsibilities, rights, rivers, science journals, The Conversation, whales}

What Do Orcas Want? Rights! When Do They Want Them? Now!

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2019

Bioethics

4}

Apparently orcas are threatened in an area of Canadian waters. The government has suggested voluntary sanctuaries. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, consciousness, earth, environmentalism, Ferris Jabr, Gaia Theory, humanity, Lake Erie, life, Mars, misanthropy, morality, mysticism, nature rights, neo-paganism, New York Times, organisms, religion, rivers, sentience, Toledo}

The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 22, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. 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, ethnic cleansing, 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 ›