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nature rights

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Danger, problems concept. Close up of human hand drowning in the lake
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
July 12, 2024
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Human Flourishing
Nature and Conservation
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NYU Law Pushes MOTH — “More Than Human” Life Project

Wesley J. Smith
July 12, 2024
Human Flourishing, Nature and Conservation
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How radical are our leading law schools becoming? I wrote recently that Harvard Law School and Harvard University are instituting a class that will teach nature rights. Well, it's way behind New York University's School of Law, which recently launched and sponsors the MOTH project — "more than human life" — an initiative of the TERRA (The Earth Rights Research and Action) Program that pushes the nature-rights paradigm toward societal dominance. Read More ›
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The amazing views from Jackson Hole Mountain Ski Resort in the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
July 8, 2024
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Nature and Conservation
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Jackson, Wyo., Approves “Rights of Nature” Resolution

Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2024
Nature and Conservation
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Jackson, Wyo. — the Tetons are my favorite place in the world — just approved a "rights of nature" resolution. It includes everything that exists. This is nonsense. If everything has rights, nothing does really. Read More ›
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John W. Weeks vintage Bridge with clock tower over Charles River in Harvard University campus Boston
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 20, 2024
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Nature and Conservation
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Harvard Law to Teach Rights of Nature

Wesley J. Smith
May 20, 2024
Nature and Conservation
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The mainstreaming of the rights-of-nature movement is accelerating — to the point that it is deemed worthy of a class at Harvard Law and History Department. Opponents had better start passing laws federally and in each state preserving "rights" and legal standing strictly to the human realm (as Utah did recently). Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 22, 2024
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Thomas Linzey on the Nature Rights Movement

Thomas Linzey
April 22, 2024
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Most people support responsible environmental policies but may be unaware of how radical the leading edge of the movement has become as an increasing number of activists support granting personhood rights to nature. Is nature rights a subversive threat to human exceptionalism and our thriving or is it the next necessary step in society’s moral growth and key to preventing Read More ›

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Hiker on a cliff above the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 17, 2024
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Nature and Conservation
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Utah Outlaws Nature Rights

Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2024
Nature and Conservation
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A bit ago, I warned that environmental radicals were pushing to grant rights to the Great Salt Lake. Thankfully, legislators noticed and passed a bill prohibiting granting rights to any non-human aspects of nature. Read More ›
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One cute pig curious on the camera
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 13, 2023
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Animal Welfare
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Saving Humans Is More Important Than Saving Pigs

Wesley J. Smith
October 13, 2023
Animal Welfare
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The chronic shortage of organs for transplantation has some bioethicists supporting unethical curatives, such as doing away with the dead-donor rule, allowing organ procurement to be not only paired with euthanasia — already being done in Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands — but also used as a means of euthanasia, and even allowing healthy people to consent to donating their vital organs. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 5, 2023
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Nature and Conservation
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‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2023
Nature and Conservation
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The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious mysticism. Read More ›
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Misty landscape with fir forest in hipster vintage retro style
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 20, 2023
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Nature and Conservation
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Scientists Urged to Aid ‘Rights of Nature’ in Science

Wesley J. Smith
May 20, 2023
Nature and Conservation
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The major science journals are growing increasingly hard left politically. The prestigious journal Science, in particular, has swallowed progressive ideology–including supporting the “nature rights” movement. Read More ›
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