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Photo: Great Salt Lake, by Brigitte Werner (werner22brigitte), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›
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Photo: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

“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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“Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced

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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Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”

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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NPR Discovers the “Nature Rights” Movement

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

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

Apparently orcas are threatened in an area of Canadian waters. The government has suggested voluntary sanctuaries. Read More ›
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The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Silvestri Matteo via Unsplash.

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

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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