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

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