Humanize From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism
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Female Rainbow Trout Swims in a High Elevation Mountain Lake, Freshwater Fish Needs Clean Water
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Nature Article Endorses “Nature Rights”

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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river diversion dam - aerial view
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Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

The nature-rights movement isn't about conservation or responsible husbanding of the natural world. Rather, it seeks to handcuff human thriving by preventing most uses of our natural resources. But it sounds soooo nice, doesn't it? Well, the Colorado town of Nederland has learned the hard way that granting "rights" to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects. Read More ›