Who Speaks for the Trees? | Astra Taylor
Only eccentric, Gaia-worshipping treehuggers would be absurd enough to grant rights to freshwater mussels, right? Not quite.
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Only eccentric, Gaia-worshipping treehuggers would be absurd enough to grant rights to freshwater mussels, right? Not quite.
The idea of giving aspects of nature legal rights is gaining traction – but the results are mixed.
Biodiversity is the most complex feature of this planet and its most vital. It's Earth’s life-support system.
Jeffrey Spear discusses how the insights of John Ruskin can help create a new paradigm for protecting the planet.
Will recent climate victories in the courtroom actually lead to steeper emission cuts? July 8, 2021 Judges have started stepping in where regulators fear to tread, delivering high-profile victories to activists who have sued on behalf of nature—and future generations. The idea of assigning legal rights to nature, which seemed a pipe dream for decades, seems to be gaining traction. As the New York Times noted in its recent obituary for Christopher Stone, his influential 1972 book Should Trees Have Standing? “long seemed out of step with legal reality, but that has begun to change.” In ...