Commentary 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? If you think these are ridiculous notions, I agree. But if you also think that such radical laws will never be enacted, you have not heard of the “nature rights” movement, a growing campaign promoted by misanthropic environmentalists to grant human-type rights to “nature.” Who would support such a thing? Well, Prince Charles, for one. He recently issued the “Terra Carta”—meaning Earth Charter—a radical environmental manifesto he says is patterned after the Magna Carta of 1215. Terra Carta seeks to do for nature what the Magna Carta accomplished for the development of what we now call human rights. “Magna Carta inspired a …
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