Tag: rivers
The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy
Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense.
Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida
“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads.
India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”
Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress.
Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals
Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too.
Seattle Power Company Sued for Violating the Rights of Fish
When we give up human exceptionalism, we go a bit mad and soon are eating our own tails.