What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights?

We need the biosphere to be healthy so that we can be healthy. Giving the biosphere legal rights makes some sense if we are serious about making the future a better one.

“Companies are people, my friend.”

In most jurisdictions around the world, corporations are considered “persons”. This means that these corporations are legally independent entities with rights, and can be held accountable separately from the people that work for these corporations. Alternative legal structures for corporations do exist and some h

To put it simply, if we are going to let corporations be “persons” and afford them special privileges and protections due to that personhood, then it makes sense to make our natural resources legal persons as well.

Corporations depend on these natural resources, and we have done a poor job as humanity of protecting these natural resources from abuse