Posted on 02/05/2020 8:19:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
“We see ourselves not as an owner of wild rice but a symbiotic partner and a parallel entity from the Creator,” says Frank Bibeau, a lawyer from the Anishinaabe indigenous group in the United States and Canada.
Harvesters use flailing sticks to beat the wild rice — or manoomin, by its Anishinaabe name — and release grain into the air. “A good portion of the rice gets sent out in all directions to reseed the rice. Maybe half of it or a little more falls into the canoe for food,” Bibeau explains. “So we are part of the natural reseeding process ourselves.”
Seeking ways to block an oil pipeline through the Great Lakes ecosystem where his people and the rice have thrived together for generations, Bibeau designed legislation granting wild rice its own rights under tribal law.
According to the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) that advised Bibeau on the legislation, manoomin is the first plant in the world to be granted rights. But it joins a growing number of rivers, forests, and characterizations of nature as a whole, that are protected by “rights of nature” laws around the world. […]
It was in this spirit that Ecuador became the first country to enshrine the rights of nature — personified as Pachamama, the Andean earth goddess — in its constitution, in 2008. […]
Residents of Toledo, a city on the shores of heavily polluted Lake Erie in the US state of Ohio, voted to give the lake rights. A local farm responded by filing a lawsuit claiming this violated the rights of agribusinesses. …
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Mushrooms will rule us all
Why can’t everybody just get along ?
“Should nature be given rights enshrined in law?”
You can’t “give” a right.
No.
I dont trust those who would ‘speak for nature’.
“Should nature be given rights enshrined in law?”
No.
Nope, but you can guarantee/protect them through laws.
I see the problem right there. Have they tried talking to the rice?
They already do....
“I don’t trust those who would ‘speak for nature”
This.
Idolatry.
Should twits be allowed to lived?
No.
The natural thing is to decay. Nature doesnt need rights...it takes what it wants. Pretty soon the brain deads are gonna pray to the tornado to be fair in whom it kills.
Regards,
Good point! Who can claim to be "nature's" spokesman?
Regards,
-PJ
Nature has rights. Natural rights. Just like men because men are natural.
Nature doesn’t have civil rights.
Oh great.
Let’s give poison ivy equal protection under the law
More “noble savage” claptrap.
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