Lake Erie just won the same legal rights as people

VOX ^ | 2/26/2019 | Sigal Samuel

[jurroppi1]

All of Minnesota?

[brookwood]

If Lake Erie has rights it should sue Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. for its plan to deface the lake with six 500-foot tall wind turbines.

[Uncle Miltie]

Free college tuition for Lake Eirie!

[Uncle Miltie]

Erie should keep a sharp eye out for EcoSexuals.

[Ann Archy]

Can Horses as Senators be far behind?

[grania]

Lake Erie needs to have protection. Sewage and agricultural runoff aren’t taken seriously enough. Particularly in the western part of the Lake (near Toledo) algae blooms are a problem most years.

[grania]

That is one of my favorite historical quips, so I’ll repeat it: Michigan and Ohio fought a war for control of Toledo. Ohio lost.

[Made In The USA]

About damn time, I’m suing Erie for all that lake effect snow. Maybe toss in Lake OntArio as a co-conspirator.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m going to marry lake Erie.

[z3n]

Lake Erie also has the right to merge with Lake Ontario, but Trump want to ban same-element marriages.

[hinckley buzzard]

Over fifty years ago Justice William O Douglas opined that some day trees could have standing to sue. We all assumed he was sinking into dementia and laughed it off.

Guess he’s having the last laugh.

[eeriegeno]

Well then, if the lake (the citizens of Toledo) has rights, it also has responsibilities! For example, if a lake effect snowstorm harms me in any way, I should be able to sue the lake (citizens of Toledo) for my damages, no?

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Minneapolis, all of Minnesota, “

HEY!!

[knarf]

I have FRiends in Minnesota and they shake their heads how they could "elect" Ellison as AG and that also muzzy Omar.

In the old days, men were happy to live free and didn't mind carving out a life in a colder environment like the northern border states.

I'm 71 and too frail for that climate so I married a Filipina, just in case they steal the 2020 from President Trump.

And I think the climate is what has kept good, Conservative people out of Minnesota .... we just don't want to work as hard as we used to.

I've said this a hundred times ... We have been successfully woosified and terrorized.

The sooner we look in the mirror and decide to do something about it, the sooner we get our nation back.

Here's someone that explains that very thought process

[robel]

What if it doesn’t identify as a lake, but as a desert. Will the state pay to perform the physical changes.

[Bob434]

same legal rights as born alive babies right before they get aborted?

[Bob434]

my lake, my choice- abort

[rjsimmon]

What if the lake could protect itself?

Already does...

[Born to Conserve]

So now I can sue Lake Erie?

[SMGFan]

And what about the other 4 Great lakes, Niagara Falls and the St Lawrence River?