Michelle Mandler '21, Associate Articles Editor

It’s Time to Pass a Rights of Nature Constitutional Amendment

It’s Time to Pass a Rights of Nature Constitutional Amendment

The natural environment is vital to human existence. We rely on it for oxygen, sustenance, and shelter. We crave it for sports, hobbies, and relaxation. Humans cannot live without nature because we are a part of it. Nature endured long before the evolution of homo sapiens. Yet we often treat the environment as the “other”; we act as though it is something apart from us rather than something with which we co-exist. Isn’t it time we accorded nature the rights we accord ourselves? Deep Green Resistance, an environmental grassroots organization, certainly thought so and even took legal action to make these rights a reality.

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