


Granting Rights to Great Salt Lake Pushed in New York Times

‘Nature Rights’ Pushed in the Lancet
I have been writing for some time about how establishment medicine and bioethics have become profoundly ideological to the point of crossing into the nihilism of anti-humanism. Now, the world’s oldest and one of the field’s most established medical — not environmental — journals has published an advocacy column in favor of granting “rights” to “nature.” The author backs the concept of granting humans the right to a clean environment: a plausible proposition that at least maintains the concept of rights that belong exclusively to the human realm. However, according to Hong Kong–based bioethicist and law professor Eric C. Ip, such rights do not go nearly far enough. He wants rights granted to nature, which would thereby reject human exceptionalism. Read More ›

Medical Journal Demands ‘Ecological Equity’

The Fear of Suffering is Driving Us Crazy

Science Journal Claim: ‘Ocean’ Is a ‘Living Entity’ with Inherent Rights

The Law Society in U.K. Endorses ‘Nature Rights’

Spanish Lagoon Granted Rights of Personhood

‘Nature’ Gets a Seat on the Board
