Beyond the Rights of Nature: Land that Owns Itself

Climate One by Climate One

Jul 10, 202663:44Science & Medicine

The “rights of nature” is the idea that if a corporation can have legal standing as a person, why can’t a river or a mountain? Thomas Linzey, one of the early architects of a legal framework for granting rights to nature...

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