Evolution of the Rights of Nature Laws

Mari Margil, of the Center for Democracy and Environmental Rights (CDER), discusses how the rights of natures has evolved, from the first law implemented in 2008 to laws implemented in constitutions and state frameworks covering updates from Ecuador, Switzerland, India and the United States. She also reveals what it means to be "rights bearing" and how "legal naturehood" is probably a better framework.

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[ruthlongridge]

A well intentioned movement though I have questions: Who sues a company for pollution of a neightbor for littering, and where does the monny awarded in a case go and who administrates it? This has the potential to become a racket, where the representatives of the plaintiffs suck up all the loot. When they tell us we cannot heat our homes or grow food because nature doen't agree, we are stuffed.