🚀 go-pugleaf

I have to agree with Eugene Miya (and with Roderick Nash) 
that we have in fact already granted some rights to nature via 
the legislative process. These of course are not the capital-R, 
Inalienable sorts of Rights which some believe they can intuit 
out of this or that self-evident metaphysical foundation... just 
plain old legal rights that affect how court decisions turn.

But the argument I was addressing in this post is not answered 
merely by observing with Nash that as a matter of historical fact 
rights are expanding: -- since it asks whether the historical 
process, even if real, has any rational basis. My purpose was to 
show that there are good reasons for extending rights (small-r) 
to ecosystems and that this is not just a kind of bandwagon we 
ought to jump onto for no better reason than to join the crowd. 

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Alan McGowen