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September 25, 2008
Ecuador to Grant Human Rights to Nature
Ecuador is on the verge of granting human rights to nature.
People will be asked to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador's tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans. If they vote yes — and polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are against — then an already approved bill of rights for nature will be introduced, and new laws will change the legal status of nature from being simply property to being a right-bearing entity.
From the bill:
Natural communities and ecosystems possess the unalienable right to exist, flourish and evolve within Ecuador. Those rights shall be self-executing, and it shall be the duty and right of all Ecuadorian governments, communities, and individuals to enforce those rights.
According to Thomas Linzey, an American lawyer who helped cook up this lunacy, the bill will "grant people the right to sue on behalf of an ecosystem." In practical terms, this means that any and all human activity will be subject to lawsuits — including breathing, which releases CO2, alleged by moonbats to be hurtful to polar bears. Theoretically, stepping on a cockroach would qualify as murder.
A primary goal is to loot, then drive out multinational companies that provide economic opportunity in Ecuador. The inevitable result will be extreme but no doubt picturesque poverty.
Again we see there is no limit to how far liberals will push their depraved, antihuman agenda. Given a government run by irresponsible progressives like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, a similar bill is not unimaginable here.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 25, 2008 8:47 AM
Comments
I always have to ask:
Are they severely stupid or just plain old evil?
Posted by: Harris at September 25, 2008 9:13 AM
Mr. Burns - "Excellent."
Posted by: Corona at September 25, 2008 9:40 AM
This has nothing to do with stupidity (except on the part of the public that willingly embraces it). This is the relentless march of the far left that has as it's goal the elimination of humans from earth...or at least throwing us back to pre-iron age living.
We are to be stewards of nature, not it's equal or it's slave. Enacting laws like "human rights" for nature (aside from it's prima facie absurdity) will totally curtail human endeavor and progress.
Posted by: matt at September 25, 2008 10:25 AM
What's next, are they going to demand Freedom of Speech for a sequoia? Maybe Right to an Attorney for a dung beetle?
Posted by: Adam at September 25, 2008 11:33 AM
Un-friggin-believable. If enacted, this legislation will effectively ban all commerce and development in the country. You won't be able to so much as build a shack without risking getting sued.
Posted by: ent at September 25, 2008 11:55 AM
Exactly right, ent. That's the whole purpose of legislation like this.
Posted by: matt at September 25, 2008 12:37 PM
Now will ecudarans now be forced to pray to the tree spirits before they can cut down a tree or even pray to animal spirits when they want to shoot a animal they certainly need to get better leaders for their nation then the doofuses running it AND IF IM REINCARNATED AS A QUETZAL I,LL POO ON THEIR HEADS SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 25, 2008 1:09 PM
I asked this before and I'll keep asking:
"HOW THE HE11 DID I END UP ON BIZZARO WORLD?"
Posted by: KHarn at September 25, 2008 4:28 PM
My toilet just issued a restraining order against me as the noxious methane gas I released following a chili cookout was approaching record levels. If that is successful, my tree in the front yard that lost its leaves the other day will demand Rogaine for Trees. When will this end?
Posted by: Sol Rosenberg at September 25, 2008 5:11 PM
I'm still waiting for some nation to grant natural rights to humans, rather than restricting them every chance they get. I'll be waiting a long time.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at September 25, 2008 7:09 PM
Sweeden has granted full rights to animals i mean its not enough that the sweedes now have to probibly put up with being curtious to aniamsl messing up their front yards LIBERALS ARE IDIOTS
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 27, 2008 8:55 AM
Hello i am from Ecuador, reading this site and your comment make me sick. None of you care about my country. All you care is for your big business to come to my country and rape our lands destroy our forest and exploit us. No longer will you be able to and it make you furiuos.
Posted by: Miguel at September 30, 2008 6:54 AM
