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What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights?
A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.
from The Elephant in the Courtroom by Lawrence-wright
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The story of separation can be vividly seen in the human-nature divide. Treating the environment as a resource that should be used for the benefit of humankind has ultimately led to its abuse and destruction. Today, the world economy has become the ‘end,’ and nature and humans have become the ‘means,’ the resources for the economy. Believing oursel
... See morefrom What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis by Christine Wamsler
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Nor is corporate power restricted to power over the employed. Global corporations now have implicit sovereignty over people throughout the world, since they are beyond the reach of any nation-state. [...] They do so by the simple expedient of bargaining one government against another for the claimed economic benefit of their presence.
from One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati… by Dee Hock
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- If the purpose of each corporation is not primarily the health and well being of the earth and all life thereon, if its principles are not based on equitable distribution of power and wealth, if it avoids responsibility for the sustenance of family, community and place, if it has no belief system, or one devoid of ethical and moral content, it is d... See more
from CORPORATIONS: THE SOCIALIZATION OF COST AND CAPITALIZATION OF GAIN by Dee Hock
sari added
When we claim that there is, on one side, a natural world and, on the other, a human world, we are simply proposing to say, after the fact, that an arbitrary portion of the actors will be stripped of all action and that another portion, equally arbitrary, will be endowed with souls
from The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things by Morgan Meis
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- Moving from an understanding of organizations and institutions as nothing but mental constructs has led to the exploration of the nature of the various forms they have taken, particularly the for-profit corporations. They have become so ubiquitous, so much a part of us from the moment of birth, that we accept them with as little thought as the air ... See more
from CORPORATIONS: THE SOCIALIZATION OF COST AND CAPITALIZATION OF GAIN by Dee Hock
sari added
- "The world is your body, you breathe it, drink it, eat it, it lives inside you, and you only live and think because this community is doing well. So: nature? You are nature, nature is you. Natural is what happens. The word is useless as a divide, there is no Human apart from Nature, you have no thoughts or feelings without your body, and the Earth ... See more
from Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight by Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
Sarah Owen and added
- At the moment Nature does not have a voice in the decisions we take that are scientifically proven to be driving climate breakdown and destroying biodiversity. Our view is that we have separated ourselves from Nature, and see ourselves as exceptional rather than interdependent with Nature and this is a root cause of our behaviour as a species towar... See more
from We are Nature - an open letter to the publishers of UK dictionaries
Mary Martin added