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Nature Article Endorses “Nature Rights”

Originally published at National Review
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Nature and Conservation
Science Journals

The world's two most influential professional science journals probably are Science and Nature. But they no longer limit their jurisdiction to science. Both are now highly ideological to the extent that each has now lent its august pages to boosting the "nature rights" movement.

Science pushed "nature rights" back in 2019. Now Nature has jumped on the bandwagon, publishing an advocacy piece to coincide with Panama's pushing a "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature" in the United Nations General Assembly.

The article's title starts out making a hubristic assumption: "Nature has Rights: It's Time the World Recognized Them."

Really? Since when? Based on what? Says who?

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Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.