Tag: Taranaki Maunga

View of Mount Taranaki (Taranaki Maunga) from Lake Mangamahoe, Egmont National Park, on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 2, 2025

Categorized
Environment, Law

Tagged
Mountain as person, Nature Rights, Taranaki Maunga, Te Kāhui Tupua}

New Zealand Mountain Named a Person with Rights, Responsibilities

_{And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche?} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2025

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Environment, Law}

Nature rights is an ideological statement demoting mankind into just another animal in the forest.