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

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November 7, 2020
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Florida County Passes ‘Rights of Nature’ Charter Amendment

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November 7, 2020
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I have been warning for years against the “nature rights” movement — only to be met mostly by eye-rolls and complacent chuckles of, “What will they think of next?” Read More ›

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September 17, 2020
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Pope Supports Classifying ‘Ecocide’ as an International Crime

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September 17, 2020
Nature and Conservation}

The ecocide movement seeks to make environmental despoliation an international crime that can land the perpetrator — usually depicted as a corporate CEO, but also government leaders — into the dock at The Hague. Read More ›

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July 24, 2020
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Thunberg Donates 100,000 Pounds to Criminalize ‘Ecocide’

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July 24, 2020
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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has become the world’s most famous anti–global-warming campaigner, was just awarded a one million pound environmental prize. She has announced that 100,000 pounds of that money will be donated to the radical environmentalist organization Stop Ecocide. Read More ›

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July 1, 2020
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DeSantis Does End Around ‘Nature Rights’

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July 1, 2020
Nature and Conservation}

The Florida Democrat Party has a “nature rights” plank in its platform and the movement was actively trying to bring the rights of nature to the Sunshine State. Given the trends, there was a clear and present danger of enactment. Read More ›

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May 20, 2020
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‘Nature Rights’ Advances to World Economic Forum

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May 20, 2020
Nature and Conservation}

As the world is distracted by COVID or snoozing in an unwise “it can never happen here” complacency, the “nature rights” movement continues to advance in respectably. It has been endorsed by science journals. Four rivers have been granted rights. The Florida Democratic Party has put it in its plank. And now apparently, it is in the process of being embraced by the Davos set. A piece in support of nature right was just given a high-profile boost at the World Economic Forum. From, “What if Nature Became a Legal Person?”: If the stream were to be granted legal capacity, it could defend its interests and its rights. Should those rights be disregarded, the stream could take legal action in its own name, Read More ›