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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bolivia, Chile, climate change, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, India, laws, Mother Nature, nature, nature rights, prosperity, rivers, United States}

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

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May 4, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, courts, development, environmentalists, Florida, human rights, humankind, journalists, lakes, law, nature rights, Orange County, radicals, The New Yorker, United Nations}

Nature Rights: A Lake in Florida Sues

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April 13, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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For a certain class of journalists, practical concerns are of little consequence — or perhaps, just not as much fun to write about. 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}

“Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced

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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
January 17, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, fish, Florida, Native Americans, nature rights, river rights, rivers, salmon, Seattle}

Seattle Power Company Sued for Violating the Rights of Fish

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January 17, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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When we give up human exceptionalism, we go a bit mad and soon are eating our own tails. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, lawsuit, Minnesota, Nature, nature rights, pollution, water}

Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline

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August 12, 2021

Bioethics

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Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, crime, ecocide, environmentalism, genocide, nature rights, Nazis, pollution, Pope Francis, The Guardian, The Hague, United Nations, University College London}

“Ecocide” — Drive to Make Environmental Damage Legal Equivalent of Genocide Accelerates

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June 23, 2021

Bioethics

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If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 30, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, anti-human, Congress, Florida, human thriving, nature rights, Orange County, rights}

Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce “Nature Rights”

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April 30, 2021

Bioethics

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Do you see the potential for tremendous mischief and severe harm to human thriving that the nature-rights movement intends? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Argentina, Bolivia, ecocide, Ecuador, environmentalists, exploration, genocide, geological features, glaciers, human rights, mining, Moon, nature rights, Pakistan, Pope Francis, Science (journal)}

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

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March 20, 2021

Bioethics

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Political Science
Tagged
, abortion, Bill Nye, dogmatism, Douglas Axe, embryology, empirical science, environmentalism, experimentation, falsification, human rights, humanities, ideology, John Zmirak, Jonathan Wells, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, Moses, Nature (journal), nature rights, New Atheism, Politics, religion, sex, The Stream, trust, Twitter, Wesley Smith}

When “Science” Becomes a Cult

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October 14, 2020

Biology, Faith & Science, Political Science

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The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 24, 2020

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

Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2020

Bioethics

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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 ›