"As we address climate change, can anything fundamentally change while we still see ourselves as separate from the Earth?" asks the interesting BBC video "is it time to reassess our relationship with nature?"
It states that in some countries the relationship is changing, back to old ways.
It tells
"influenced by a resurgent indigenous view of Pachachama (Mother Nature),
in Bolivia and Ecuador have passed laws granting all nature equal rights with humans.
In New Zealand a Maori tribe has successfully fought to have their river - and ancestor - given the same legal rights as a person."
If an artificial creation such as a corporation can have legal representation, then why not a tree or other living organism? If it is assumed that a corporation wants to survive, then why not assume that a tree does too?
The world needs more trees. A hundred-odd years ago it was noted in the Edmonton Bulletin that the Edmonton district was cool but the writer promised with the removal of trees and settling of the land, it would heat up. And we seen that process come to pass at the scale of the whole planet.
Giving legal rights to trees and Nature (spelled with a capital letter - thank you very much) may slow down its clear-cutting, destruction, and near-extermination.
Let's hope.
Thank you for reading.
==========================
Comments