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Blue sky and clouds over Henderson Creek, which runs through Rookery Bay in Marco Island
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Wesley J. Smith
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April 30, 2021
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Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce ‘Nature Rights’

Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2021
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The “nature rights” movement is stunningly anti-human. It not only removes the concept of “rights” from the strictly human realm — us, our juridical entities and associations, etc. — but was created to thwart human enterprise. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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April 27, 2021
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Is Climate Change More Important Than Genocide?

Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2021
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Is the “climate crisis” really more important than everything else — even genocide — to the point that we will swallow whatever China does outside of that issue as the cost of fighting global warming? Apparently so. Read More ›
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Free range farm young chicken broiler
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Wesley J. Smith
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February 8, 2021
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How Much More Should We Pay for Costco’s Chickens?

Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2021
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New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote one of his periodic columns decrying industrial methods of animal husbandry. This time, he focused on chickens and the raising methods that permit Costco to sell a whole rotisserie chicken for only $4.99. Read More ›
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Ecological disaster of fires in the Amazon, South America
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 5, 2021
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World Medical Association Wants Worldwide ‘Climate Emergency’ Declared

Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2021
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I have written here often about how the scientific and medical sectors are destroying their credibility by growing increasingly ideological. Here’s another example. The World Medical Association has come down with a nasty case of global-warming hysteria. Read More ›
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Aerial view of river in tropical green forest with mountains in background
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 1, 2020
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Missouri Bill to Ban ‘Rights of Nature’

Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2020
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Good. A bill has been filed in Missouri to ban granting legal rights or court standing to any non-human aspect of nature. Read More ›
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Aerial view of river in tropical green forest with mountains in background
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Wesley J. Smith
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November 7, 2020
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Florida County Passes ‘Rights of Nature’ Charter Amendment

Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2020
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I have been warning for years against the “nature rights” movement — only to be met mostly by eye-rolls and complacent chuckles of, “What will they think of next?” Read More ›
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The dead fish
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Wesley J. Smith
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September 17, 2020
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Pope Supports Classifying ‘Ecocide’ as an International Crime

Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
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The ecocide movement seeks to make environmental despoliation an international crime that can land the perpetrator — usually depicted as a corporate CEO, but also government leaders — into the dock at The Hague. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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July 24, 2020
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Thunberg Donates 100,000 Pounds to Criminalize ‘Ecocide’

Wesley J. Smith
July 24, 2020
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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has become the world’s most famous anti–global-warming campaigner, was just awarded a one million pound environmental prize. She has announced that 100,000 pounds of that money will be donated to the radical environmentalist organization Stop Ecocide. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 20, 2020
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‘Nature Rights’ Advances to World Economic Forum

Wesley J. Smith
May 20, 2020
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As the world is distracted by COVID or snoozing in an unwise “it can never happen here” complacency, the “nature rights” movement continues to advance in respectably. It has been endorsed by science journals. Four rivers have been granted rights. The Florida Democratic Party has put it in its plank. And now apparently, it is in the process of being embraced by the Davos set. A piece in support of nature right was just given a high-profile boost at the World Economic Forum. From, “What if Nature Became a Legal Person?”: If the stream were to be granted legal capacity, it could defend its interests and its rights. Should those rights be disregarded, the stream could take legal action in its own name, Read More ›

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