Rights of Nature & the Law

The Declaration of Independence famously states "that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But do those or similar unalienable rights extend beyond people? According to groups like the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, our ecosystem - the trees, oceans, animals and mountains - are entitled to rights of their own. So was the Declaration of Independence too limited in its language? Does nature have its own "self-evident" rights? On Lawyer 2 Lawyer , host Craig Williams is joined by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin , an attorney at Shearwater Law PLLC, to discuss what rights we have to access nature, whether there is a requirement for the government to preserve nature for us, and if we have any legal rights to force the preservation of other species.

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Rights of Nature & the Law is an episode from Lawyer 2 Lawyer - Law News and Legal Topics by Legal Talk Network.

This episode is 30:54 long.

This episode was published on Jul 9, 2021.

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