nature rights

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August 7, 2024
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‘Plant Philosophy’ Denigrates Human Uniqueness

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August 7, 2024
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Lately, as scientists unlock the complexity of plant biology, we are witnessing equivalent advocacy with regard to plants. The latest example of such radical anthropomorphizing comes to us in a long article just published in Aeon that discusses "plant philosophy." Read More ›

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August 1, 2024
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Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push ‘Nature Rights’ Movement

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August 1, 2024
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Here is a story on "nature rights" activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. But I think it has important implications. Activists tried to qualify a glacier for the Iceland presidential ballot. Read More ›

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April 23, 2024}

Thomas Linzey on the Nature Rights Movement

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April 23, 2024}

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October 5, 2023
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‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

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October 5, 2023
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The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious mysticism. Read More ›

Young pea (Pisum) sprouts in a sunny vegetable garden

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December 20, 2022
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The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

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December 20, 2022
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But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent. Read More ›

Homemade sign at environmental rally. A colorful cardboard placard is viewed close up, saying the climate is changing, why aren't we, in the hands of ecological activists as they protest in the city

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January 4, 2022
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Stop ‘Authoritarian Climate Governance’ Before It is Too Late

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January 4, 2022
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If COVID has taught us anything, it is that the technocratic class has little compunction about restricting freedom. Moreover, once they grab power, they are very reluctant to give it back. Read More ›

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October 20, 2021
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The Rights of Nature: Saving the Planet or Harmful to Humanity?

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October 20, 2021
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Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith participated in a debate hosted by Gonzaga University with a leading proponent of the nature rights movement, Thomas Linzey. Read More ›

Blue sky and clouds over Henderson Creek, which runs through Rookery Bay in Marco Island

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April 30, 2021
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Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce ‘Nature Rights’

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2021
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The “nature rights” movement is stunningly anti-human. It not only removes the concept of “rights” from the strictly human realm — us, our juridical entities and associations, etc. — but was created to thwart human enterprise. Read More ›

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February 8, 2021
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How Much More Should We Pay for Costco’s Chickens?

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February 8, 2021
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New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote one of his periodic columns decrying industrial methods of animal husbandry. This time, he focused on chickens and the raising methods that permit Costco to sell a whole rotisserie chicken for only $4.99. Read More ›

Amazon Rainforest in Anavilhanas National Park, Amazonas - Brazil

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December 1, 2020
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Missouri Bill to Ban ‘Rights of Nature’

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December 1, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Good. A bill has been filed in Missouri to ban granting legal rights or court standing to any non-human aspect of nature. Read More ›