Category: Nature and Conservation

Suwannee River, Gilchrist County, Florida

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July 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Granting ‘rights’ to water, nature could hurt Floridians in any number of ways

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July 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Petition gatherers will soon be trying to qualify one of the most radical constitutional amendments in Florida history for the ballot. The Florida Right to Clean Water initiative masks as a benign proposal to protect the state’s waters from pollution. In reality, the measure would explicitly grant human-type rights to H2O. Read More ›

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June 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

‘Ecocide’ Drive to Make Environmental Damage Legal Equivalent of Genocide Accelerates

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June 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Despite the grueling permit processes, extensive environmental impact reports, and litigation gauntlets that currently protect the environment and/or throttle development — take your pick — nature rights intends to become the “shield” preventing the exploitation of natural resources regardless of how responsibly undertaken, while ecocide intends to be the “spear” punishing it. Read More ›

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

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June 7, 2021
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Swamp Rights Constitutional Amendment Pushed in Florida

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June 7, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

This is serious. Signatures are being gathered in Florida to qualify a “rights of waterways” constitutional amendment for Florida. The proposed amendment is a form of “nature rights” and is being pushed by (among others) the Florida Rights of Nature Network, the slogan for which is, “Nature is not just an object. It is alive. It has as much right to live as we do.” Read More ›

Operating oil and gas well profiled on sunset sky

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May 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

The IEA’s Plan to Destroy Freedom and Save the Planet

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May 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

If you liked gas lines after the Colonial Pipeline was shut down by a hacking—or if the rolling blackouts last summer in California were your idea of fun—you will love what the international global warming warriors at the International Energy Agency have planned for us. Read More ›

Lake Shasta Lowest Water Level in Decades

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May 13, 2021
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Another California Drought with No New Reservoirs

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May 13, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Drought and monsoon are chronic and predictable contrasting California weather patterns. Now, it’s drought time again. Read More ›

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

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April 30, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

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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April 27, 2021
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Is Climate Change More Important Than Genocide?

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April 27, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Is the “climate crisis” really more important than everything else — even genocide — to the point that we will swallow whatever China does outside of that issue as the cost of fighting global warming? Apparently so. 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
Nature and Conservation}

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 ›

Aerial view of river in tropical green forest with mountains in background

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January 5, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

World Medical Association Wants Worldwide ‘Climate Emergency’ Declared

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January 5, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

I have written here often about how the scientific and medical sectors are destroying their credibility by growing increasingly ideological. Here’s another example. The World Medical Association has come down with a nasty case of global-warming hysteria. Read More ›

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December 1, 2020
Nature and Conservation}

Missouri Bill to Ban ‘Rights of Nature’

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December 1, 2020
Nature and Conservation}

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 ›