24May 2025 by Post

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

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The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Source
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13Feb 2024 by Post

Leading Bioethics Journal Pathologizes Pregnancy

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The views expressed are consistent with the increasing anti-natalism seen lately in philosophy and bioethics. Source
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24Apr 2020 by Post

Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”

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Earth Day, celebrated this past Wednesday, launched the modern environmentalist movement in 1970. Since then, the movement has moved way beyond the principles of conservation, remediation of polluted areas, and protecting species to embrace an anti-humanism that seeks to throttle our thriving in the name of “saving the earth.” The Deep Ecology Movement is one example. Proving the old maxim that the revolution always consumes itself, two environmental activists have now urged abandoning Earth Day as a “failure” in favor of pushing the “rights of nature.” From “Abolish Earth Day,” published in Common Dreams: Embedded within Earth Day is the pursuit of comfort: the feeling that a benevolent authority exists to protect human and ecological life. People want to believe that laws — federal environmental regulations — protect them, and…
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