By Bill Donohue | June 2, 2021 | 4:16pm EDT Professor Christopher D. Stone gives an interview with his school. (Photo credit: YouTube/USC Gould School of Law) Christopher D. Stone is not exactly a household name, but he clearly left his mark on the "rights" movement. The University of Southern California law professor recently died. More well-known was his father, I.F. Stone, whom the New York Timesobituary on Stone called a "crusading reporter." They left out that he was also a Soviet agent. Should trees have rights? Christopher D. Stone was convinced they should. "I am quite seriously proposing that we give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called 'natural objects' in the environment—indeed, to the natural environment as a whole," he said.