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What if Legal Personhood Included Plants, Rivers, and the Planet?
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YES! Magazine - Environment
A new podcast explores the rights of nature movement and its potential to shift Western legal doctrine around environmental protection.
If that’s legally true, then why not grant legal personhood to a watershed or a forest?
They approach legal arguments with a completely different philosophy and timescale.
“We’re starting to see pre-emptive laws get passed to block rights of nature legislation,” Westervelt says.
In this way, Westervelt says, storytelling—be it through Indigenous knowledge-sharing or a podcast—is an effective way to explain why it’s important to protect water.
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