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 ›
lake Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 13, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsScience Reporting Tagged , António Guterres, courts, development, Disney World, Elizabeth Kolbert, environmentalists, Florida, human rights, humankind, journalists, lakes, law, nature rights, Orange County, Orlando, radicals, The New Yorker, United Nations Nature Rights: A Lake in Florida Sues Wesley J. Smith April 13, 2022 Bioethics, Science Reporting 4 For a certain class of journalists, practical concerns are of little consequence — or perhaps, just not as much fun to write about. Read More ›
Great Lakes Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 18, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismScience 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 3 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 ›
weeds Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 14, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsBotanyHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Argentina, autotrophs, brains, environmentalists, humans, insects, microbes, Monica Gagliano, Natalie Angier, New York Times, orangutan, pain, peas, persons, plant rights, radicals, Switzerland, trees, University of Western Australia, weeds Another Push for Plant “Rights” Wesley J. Smith January 14, 2019 Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism 2 There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 23, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsEnvironment & Climate Tagged , __k-review, 1984 (novel), Amazon River, biodiversity, Earth Law Center, ecosystem, electricity, fishing, Ganges River, nature rights, pollution, radicals, river rights, trial lawyers “River Rights” Would Impede Human Thriving Wesley J. Smith April 23, 2018 Bioethics, Environment & Climate 3 If the current trend continues, “river rights” will exert a tremendously destructive force. Read More ›
Colorado-River Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date December 9, 2017 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __k-review, Colorado River, courts, frivolous lawsuit, law, lawsuit, nature rights, radicals, river rights Colorado River Gives Up on Lawsuit Wesley J. Smith December 9, 2017 Bioethics 1 Stop coddling the radicals who are abusing our courts. Read More ›