As this timely article highlights, efforts to assert the rights of nature, and by extension diminish the almost limitless power of corporations may hold the key to a fundamental re-thinking of local economies and sustainable development.
“Indigenous battles to defend nature have taken to the streets, leading to powerful mobilizations like the gathering at Standing Rock. They have also taken to the courts, through the development of innovative legal ways of protecting nature. In Ecuador, Bolivia and New Zealand, indigenous activism has helped spur the creation of a novel legal phenomenon—the idea that nature itself can have rights. […]”
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