Tag: pollution

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, anti-capitalism, bees, climate change, geological features, government, habitat loss, human activity, humans, industry, insects, law, lawfare, lawsuits, nature rights, PETA, pollution, Smithsonian Magazine, stingless bees}

In Peru, Bees Are Granted the Right to Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Zoology

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It is not as if nature or animals need to be granted rights in order to be protected robustly. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, birds, capitalism, China, conservation, environment, fishing, human exceptionalism, humans, hunters, hunting, insects, nature, pollution, prey, reptiles, rodents, socialism, wildlife}

“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 25, 2025

Bioethics, Zoology

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The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, courts, flowing, law, natural world, nature, nature rights, Notre Dame Cathedral, Olympics, personhood, pollution, rights, water}

A “Right to Flow”: River Rights for the Seine?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 7, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

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Even nonessential activities could be blocked by pretending that the Seine is a person. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculture, beef, California, corn, environmentalists, Europe, food, global warming, New York Times, pesticides, pollution, United States}

Learning to Love Industrial Farming

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2024

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

5}

"Old MacDonald-style farms where soil is nurtured with love and animals have names rather than numbers may sound environmentally friendly." Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, alcohol, antibiotics, COVID-19, disease, Doctor's Diary (series), factory, free will, gender dysphoria, intelligent design, measles, mental illness, pollution, pregnancy, Vaccines, vestigial structures, vitamin C, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 9, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, climate change, Columbia University, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, nature rights, personhood, pollution, river rights, University of Oregon}

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 31, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, environmentalism, geological features, guppies, human thriving, misanthropy, mosquitoes, nature rights, pollution, regulations, rights, weeds}

To Throttle Human Thriving Is the Point of “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Granting “rights” to nature — including geological features — profoundly undermines the concept of “rights” itself. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, biosphere, cancer, complex life, Duke University, intelligent design, Mercury, microbes, Nature (journal), Nature Microbiology, New Scientist, ocean, Penn State, pollution, Science Advances, seafood, tuna, UC Riverside}

Gifted Microbes Elevate the Case for Intelligent Design to the Entire Biosphere

_{David Coppedge
June 27, 2023

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Far from being humble, primitive steppingstones to higher life, microbes display superpowers that so-called “higher” forms of life depend on. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, beetles, biosphere, Coleoptera, foresight, Lepidoptera, Michael Denton, microbes, plastics, pollution, polymers, potassium, The Miracle of Man, UC Riverside, University of Queensland}

Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

_{David Coppedge
July 21, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

6}

Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, body plans, camouflage, caterpillars, Charles Darwin, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, evolution, humans, industrial melanism, larvae, Michael Majerus, New York Times, On the Origin of Species, organs, peppered moths, pollution}

Peppered Moths: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

_{Jonathan Wells
May 31, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

At most, the story shows a change in the proportions of two varieties of the same species. Read More ›