Scientists Urged to Aid ‘Rights of Nature’
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Posted By: Judy W., 5/21/2023 5:50:45 AM
The major science journals are growing increasingly hard left politically. The prestigious journal Science, in particular, has swallowed progressive ideology–including supporting the “nature rights” movement. The rights of nature–which include geological features–are generally defined as the right to “exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.” Nature is, of course, not sentient. So, this campaign is really about granting environmental extremists legal standing to enforce their policy desires through litigation as legal guardians serving nature’s best interests. But the movement has a problem. It is clearly ideological rather than rational. So now, three law professors and a biologist
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$100,000. Do I hear $250,000?
$250,000. Do I hear $500,000?
$500,000. Do I hear $1,000,000?
$5 MILLION!
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The left knows how to fight for domination on multiple fronts while the right can't get its act together on more than two or three.. They are active; we are reactive.Who besides Wesley Smith even knows about this particular sick and potentially tyrannical stuff?