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Our environmental movement has always been based on nature as property. In other words, owning ten acres of ground in the United States, carries with it the legal ability to destroy the ecosystems on that ten-acre piece of property. What is increasingly growing is a realization that for a real environmental movement to occur, ecosystems must have legally enforceable rights of their own.
Thirteen municipalities in the United States now have passed local laws that say that nature and ecosystems are no longer property, but actually have legally enforceable rights of their own. And Ecuador became the first country in the world to take that concept of moving to a rights-based environmental protection system and ensconce it into their national constitution. It’s now law.
Thomas Linzey, interview by Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/21/envision_spokane_coalition_works_to_get
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