Mount_Taranaki_or_Mount_Egmont,_New_Zealand Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 30, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsEnvironment & Climate Tagged , colonialism, conservation, duties, environmentalism, indigenous people, mountains, nature rights, New Zealand, powers, public policy, responsibilities, rights, Santa Monica, Yellowstone This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights” and Even “Responsibilities” Wesley J. Smith January 30, 2025 Bioethics, Environment & Climate 2 And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche? Ridiculous! 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 ›
Lake Erie Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 5, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsEnvironment & Climate Tagged , __k-review, Argentina, Bolivia, greenmail, human thriving, Lake Erie, litigation, nature rights, orangutan, Pachamama, Pittsburgh, radicalism, Santa Monica, Toledo, writ of habeas corpus Lake Erie Now Has Rights Wesley J. Smith March 5, 2019 Bioethics, Environment & Climate 4 If nature has rights, that means everything does, which devalues “rights” just as a wild inflation deflates the worth of currency. Read More ›
Nature-rights Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 20, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __edited, California, glaciers, laws, nature rights, orangutan, rivers, Santa Monica, writ of habeas corpus “Nature’s Rights” Constitutional Amendment Is Proposed Wesley J. Smith August 20, 2017 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 2 Before you are tempted to laugh, realize that the environmental movement is becoming increasingly anti-human and the “nature rights” movement is growing. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 12, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsCultureHuman ExceptionalismLegal Science (jurisprudence) Tagged , __k-review, nature, nature rights, Santa Monica, United Kingdom River to Receive Human Rights? Wesley J. Smith March 12, 2017 Bioethics, Culture, Human Exceptionalism, Legal Science (jurisprudence) 2 The message, of course, is that humans are not the least bit exceptional. Read More ›
