nature rights – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

07Jun 2025 by Post

A “Right to Flow”: River Rights for Seine?

bioethics, Council of Paris, courts, Environment & Climate, flowing, French Parliament, Is a River Alive?, Law, Life Sciences, Louvre, natural world, nature, nature rights, nature rights movement, Notre Dame Cathedral, Olympics, personhood, pollution, rights, Robert Macfarlane, Seine, water

Even nonessential activities could be blocked by pretending that the Seine is a person. Source

24May 2025 by Post

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, anti-humanism, bioethics, China, ecosystems, endangered species, enforcement, glaciers, habitats, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, International Day for Biological Diversity, lawfare, Life Sciences, mountain, National Geographic Society, nature rights, rivers, waves

The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Source

13Apr 2025 by Post

New York State: Rights for Lakes, Waterways

bioethics, bureaucrats, carbon trading, dams, development, ecosystems, Environment & Climate, free market, Great Lakes, human flourishing, industry, Intelligent Design, legislation, life forms, monetization, nature rights, New York State, Ohio, patenting, Toledo, water, watersheds

For the future good of human flourishing, we need to take the “nature rights” movement seriously. Source

11Feb 2025 by Post

“Indigenous Wisdom” Would Make Environmental Science Less Scientific

Culture & Ethics, data, Earth Science, environmental research, Environmentalism, equity, geological features, indigenous people, indigenous wisdom, National Ecological Observatory Network, Nature Communications, nature rights, Physics, Earth & Space, religion

Indigenous people were and are keen observers of nature but modern environment policy needs to be deeply rooted in science as well as culture. Source

27Jan 2025 by Post

Elephant Personhood — Nixed Again

animal rights, animal standing, Colorado, Culture & Ethics, elephants, human being, lawsuits, nature rights, Neuroscience & Mind, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons

The activists had some reason for hope. Two judges in New York’s highest court swallowed the baloney in a 5–2 ruling. Source

02Dec 2024 by Post

Now It’s “Whale Rights”

animal standing, anti-Western ideology, conservation, courts, Culture & Ethics, emotionalism, indigenous wisdom, industrialization, Legal Cheek, legal person, legal standing, London, Michelle Bender, national defense, nature rights, Neuroscience & Mind, Ocean Vision Legal, Pacific Whale Fund, rights, River Thames, shipping, Simmons and Simmons, whale rights, whales, windmills

As often is the case in nature rights activism, “indigenous wisdom” is invoked as somehow superior to modern conservation. Source

22Sep 2024 by Post

Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

China, Climate Week, Culture & Ethics, earth goddess, fossil fuels, grass, human race, human thriving, Life Sciences, Luddism, mining, mosquitoes, natural gas, nature rights, nonhuman beings, Pachamama, pipeline construction, pond scum, resources, Rights of Nature Tribunal, scallops, self-loathing, squirrels, trees

Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Source

02Aug 2024 by Post

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

cognition, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, goldenrods, Harvard Law School, human rights, human supremacism, Iceland, More Than Human Life, nature rights, neo-paganism, Neuroscience & Mind, NYU Law School, Panama, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith

When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Source

01Aug 2024 by Post

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

China, climate change, Cody Skahan, Columbia University, Culture & Ethics, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, Mark Carey, nature rights, Panama, personhood, Physics, Earth & Space, pollution, river rights, Snæfellsjökull, University of Oregon

Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Source

17Apr 2024 by Post

Utah Versus Nature Rights

business, Congress, corporations, Culture & Ethics, currency, environmental movement, environmentalists, Florida, granite outcroppings, Great Salt Lake, human rights, Idaho, inflation, legal standing, legislation, Life Sciences, mackerel, nature, nature rights, Ohio, personhood, pier, pond scum, radicals, rivers, Santa Monica, states, Utah

Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Source

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