Category: geological features

25Sep 2026 by Post

Will You Take Ice with That? The Latest Madness from Nature Rights

agency, anthropomorphizing, arctic ice, Arctic Institute, Arctic sea ice, cattle ranches, crabs, elements, ethics, fossil fuel, geological features, glacier rights, human exceptionalism, humans, ice melt, intelligentsia, Jim Hightower, minerals, mystification, National Geographic Society, nature rights, NGOs, persons, rights of nature, sea ice, University of Helsinki

Ice has no agency. It is frozen water. Water contains minerals and other elements. Do they have rights, too? Source

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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

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11Nov 2023 by Post

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

Board of Directors, Brontie Ansell, Business Green, Culture, Culture & Ethics, ethics, fauna, flora, Frieda Gormley, geological features, House of Hackney, interior design, lawyers, Lawyers for Nature, Life Sciences, Mother Nature, nature rights, neo-nature religion, Pachamama, personhood, portfolio, private sector, radicalism, virtue signaling

Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Source

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04Nov 2023 by Post

To Throttle Human Thriving Is the Point of “Nature Rights”

Culture & Ethics, Environmentalism, Fox River, geological features, guppies, human enterprise, human thriving, Lake Michigan, Life Sciences, Menominee River, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee River, misanthropy, mosquitoes, nature rights, pollution, regulations, rights, waterways, weeds

Granting “rights” to nature — including geological features — profoundly undermines the concept of “rights” itself. Source

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08Oct 2022 by Post

Spanish Lagoon Granted Right to “Evolve”

Culture, Culture & Ethics, environmental law, environmental practices, Erin O’Donnell, Evolution, fertilizers, geological features, guardians, human needs, lawsuits, Mar Menor, mussels, nature rights, personhood, regulations, Science (journal), sea life, Spain, University of Melbourne

The “nature rights” movement continues to spread — with little resistance because people don’t take it seriously. Source

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14Apr 2022 by Post

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

animal rights, animals, bacteria, Climate News, Congress, courts, Culture & Ethics, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, germs, habeas corpus, human exceptionalism, individual animals, insects, Laws, Life Sciences, nature right, New York State, plants, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source

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20Mar 2021 by Post

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

Argentina, Bolivia, Culture & Ethics, Declaration of the Rights of the Moon, ecocide, Ecuador, environmentalists, exploration, genocide, geological features, glaciers, human rights, mining, Moon, nature rights, Pakistan, Pope Francis, Science (journal)

It is easy to mock this movement and to not take it seriously. That’s how it will win. Source

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