Horizonplantandburn Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 23, 2021 CategoriesBioethics 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 Wesley J. Smith June 23, 2021 Bioethics 4 If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt. Read More ›
Amazon fires from space Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 2, 2019 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __edited, Amazon, Brazil, capitalism, China, Communists, Donald Trump, ecocide, evolution, fish, free market, genocide, grass, human rights, insects, mice, nature rights, New York Times, people, snakes, The Hague With Amazon Fires as a Pretext, “Ecocide” Advocacy Goes Mainstream Wesley J. Smith October 2, 2019 Bioethics 4 Radical environmentalists intend to thwart human thriving in order to “save the planet.” Read More ›
grass Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 5, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsEnvironment & ClimateHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations “Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development Wesley J. Smith April 5, 2019 Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism 4 Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›
tree-person-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 16, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBotany Tagged , __cedited, anti-humanism, autotrophs, book reviews, ecocide, environmentalism, fruit, genocide, New York Times, peas, rationality, science, sexual reproduction, Switzerland, The Hague, trees No, Trees Are Not People Too Wesley J. Smith April 16, 2018 Bioethics, Botany 3 Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›
