Lawfare and the resulting usurpation of public policy by courts allows the elites to decide environmental policies by diktat.
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If Italy accepts the bioethics’ commission’s advice, it will join a growing list of countries that are taking steps to end the practice.
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Journalist Michael Grunwald points out that factory farming means fewer natural spaces are cleared for farmland than would otherwise be the case.
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Euthanasia activists claim that legalizing assisted suicide doesn’t increase overall numbers. But their study actually shows a significant impact.
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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. More than 30 U.S. cities have adopted nature rights ordinances, mostly to prevent fracking. And now in the recent election, 57 percent of voters in Everett, Wash., granted rights to a geological feature, specifically, the Snohomish River watershed. From the initiative: The Snohomish River Watershed possesses the rights to exist, regenerate, and flourish, which shall include the right to naturally recharge, the right to naturally flow, the right to water quality necessary to provide habitat for native plants and animals, the right to provide clean water, and the right to restoration. The Snohomish River Watershed shall also have the right to be free from activities or projects which violate those rights. This is Read More ›
This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. The “nature rights” project — and its ancillaries — keeps advancing, mostly ignored by those who could stop it in its tracks with legislation declaring that only humans and our associations and juridical entities have legal standing in courts or enforceable rights. Now, a “whale rights” project has commenced, pushed pro bono by a big international law firm, Simmons and Simmons. From the Legal Cheek story: These frameworks centre on the concept of a “legal person” — an entity acknowledged as having “standing” within the judicial system. Traditionally, this status has been reserved for humans, community organisations, and corporations. Granting this designation to whales represents a groundbreaking shift, acknowledging the value Read More ›
The Washington Post has now edited an article to correct a key misstatement I criticized, without admitting it. Journalism dies in darkness.
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Shame on the states that passed laws allowing courts to deny custody to parents who won’t allow their children to be subjected to this medical experimentation.
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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. Our betters among the elites are increasingly embracing nature rights and its derivatives. Latest example: An editorial published by the World Economic Forum pushes “forest rights.” The Earth is burning and the fault is — ta-da! — capitalism! From, “Reimagining Capitalism — Giving Forests Legal Rights“: Capitalism, of course has, in many aspects, brought about incredible progress. Industrialization and globalization have propelled advances in life expectancy, education, and social welfare. But does this narrative still hold true? For the first time, GDP diverges from well-being indices in many nations. This exposes a system that not only engineers its own demise, but threatens humanity and the natural environment. Read More ›
Also, the great anti-assisted-suicide and disability-rights campaigner Diane Coleman — who founded Not Dead Yet — who recently passed away.
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Nature, a British publication, should stay out of American politics; otherwise, it breeds the very mistrust of the science sector that it decries.
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Unlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros.
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Policy-makers should pass laws declaring that only humans and our associations are entitled to rights and standing in courts.
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27% of Canadians strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28% for suffering caused by homelessness.
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We can’t allow policies about some of the most powerful and potentially dangerous technologies ever invented to be left to the supposed moral “experts.”
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The editors of Nature are destroying a once venerable and important science journal. That’s bad for science, which is bad for the world. Shame.
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The zoo, where the elephants have lived for years, has a sterling reputation but the advocates believe that they know better what elephants would want.
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What the country really needs is a strong Supreme Court decision unequivocally reinvigorating the free-exercise clause by overturning Employment Division v Smith
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Dementia is not politically sensitive. But if the topic were, say, gender dysphoria, would honesty be likewise demanded? No wonder so many doubt science now.
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What many people are really craving isn’t “interesting” experiences but meaning. But sources of meaning like faith, family, community, country, have decayed.
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