2560px-India-SightsCulture-38-riceproduction2458 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date August 7, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , climate change, Columbia Law School, ecosystems, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, human beings, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, international community, International Court of Justice, legal standing, nature rights, Pact for the Future, radical environmentalism, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, World Economic Forum International Tribunals Grant Nature Rights, Restrict Energy David Klinghoffer August 7, 2025 Bioethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism 4 The vaunted "international community" is going all-in on radical environmentalism. Read More ›
Miyamoto-Musashi-Attacking-Giant-Whale-Utagawa-Kuniyoshi Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date December 2, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animal rights, animal standing, conservation, courts, indigenous wisdom, legal standing, London, nature rights, rights, shipping, whales, windmills Now It’s “Whale Rights” Wesley J. Smith December 2, 2024 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind 3 As often is the case in nature rights activism, “indigenous wisdom” is invoked as somehow superior to modern conservation. Read More ›
Great Salt Lake Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 17, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsLife Sciences Tagged , business, Congress, corporations, currency, environmental movement, environmentalists, Florida, granite outcroppings, Great Salt Lake, human rights, Idaho, inflation, legal standing, legislation, nature, nature rights, Ohio, personhood, pond scum, radicals, rivers, Santa Monica, states, Utah Utah Versus Nature Rights Wesley J. Smith April 17, 2024 Bioethics, Life Sciences 3 Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Read More ›
Rio Carrao, Venezuela Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 1, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , algae, duties, evolution, experts, glaciers, human beings, ideologues, lawsuits, legal standing, Moon, nature, nature rights, oceans, ownership, rights, Science (journal), science journals, scientists, swamps, wokeness Should We Give Nature “Rights”? A Premier Science Journal Says Yes Wesley J. Smith June 1, 2023 Bioethics, Evolution 5 The text is too long to present here, so I will give one example: the “right to evolve.” The authors note that “evolution” has many meanings. Read More ›
Columbia River Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 26, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, animals, Bolivia, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, humans, law, legal standing, municipalities, nature, nature rights, policymakers, rationality, rivers, United States For Rivers, a “Right to Flow”? Wesley J. Smith August 26, 2018 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 3 Most media with which I interact on this issue assume that advocating personhood for nature must be a fringe meme. Read More ›
