Looks like a cadre of Property Rights advocates decided to flood the comments section.
We've been doing it their way for the past 250 years. Based on the condition of our earth at this point and what we are NOT protecting for future generations, it's time for a new paradigm.
I would absolutely support this, and we would spend our time figuring out how to best honor and integrate those who 'own' property, but without giving them the broad rights to the earth they don't deserve nor have earned any more than most of the rest of us. (And yes, I 'own' properties too, but prefer to see it as stewarding...)
It would be great if these (old and middle-aged) white men could start understanding that the planet is not just about them, but that this is a place we must all 8 billion of us (and counting quickly), live together on. And that we have REAL responsibilities to steward it into the next few thousand years...not some vision of an apocalyptic end-time, so nothing matters.
This is where we're going, because we have no choice in the matter.
The way people have been, and want to keep selfishly and greedily owning, polluting, clearcutting, dominating...this is where we're at now.
It's precisely this kind of thinking which has brought us to this precipice.
We'll need a lot more than just a Rights of Nature designation, to save this place.
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