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Good Grief: ‘Terra Carta,’ a Proposed Magna Carta for Nature

Good Grief: ‘Terra Carta,’ a Proposed Magna Carta for Nature
Old-growth redwood trees in California's Humboldt Redwoods State Park, on Nov. 8, 2013. Daderot/CC0 1.0
Wesley J. Smith
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Should the Mississippi River be allowed to sue farmers to prevent them from using its water? Should the law permit California’s redwood trees to litigate against timber companies? Should mountains be able to obtain injunctions to stop ore mining or reindeer to prevent pipelines from being built?

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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