By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/04/2026The Rights of Nature movement uses a bold tactic to preserve our Earth: it seeks to extend (pseudo) personhood to things like watersheds, forests and ecosystems, as well as nonhuman species, in hopes of creating legal "standing" to ask the courts for protection: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_... 1/ 3266
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Pelon @miguelitopelon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026If corporations can be people, then forests and mountains can be too. 000
An Average Joe @kokomojoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026If corporations are people, why not forests, ecosystems, etc.? At worst incorporate them, then they'll be people. 000