{"id":15811,"date":"2019-08-05T01:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2019-08-05T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:08:29","slug":"ohio-vs-the-gaia-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/08\/05\/ohio-vs-the-gaia-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio vs. The Gaia Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Throughout the world, including the United States, make places are declaring that &#8220;nature&#8221; and ecosystems, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/10\/12\/american-rivers-are-people-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rivers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/18\/glaciers-are-people-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">glaciers<\/a>. The city of Toledo, Ohio voted to give legal rights to <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/03\/05\/lakes-are-armed-people-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Erie<\/a>. It turns out the state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.ohio.gov\/legislation\/legislation-documents?id=GA133-HB-166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohio wasn&#8217;t having any of that idiocy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(B) Nature or any ecosystem does not have standing to participate in or bring an action in any court of common pleas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(C)(1) No person, on behalf of or representing nature or an ecosystem, shall bring an action in any court of common pleas. (2) No person shall bring an action in any court of common pleas against a person who is acting on behalf of or representing nature or an ecosystem. (3) No person, on behalf of or representing nature or an ecosystem, shall intervene in any manner, such as by filing a counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party complaint, in any action brought in any court of common pleas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(D) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the state or any of its agencies from enforcing the laws pertaining to environmental pollution, conservation, wild animals, or other natural communities or ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15812\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-nature-rights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-nature-rights.jpg 320w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-nature-rights-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The downside is that just a part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/ohio-bans-nature-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget bill<\/a>, and not a permanent statute. Nonetheless, this is needed pushback to &#8220;nature rights&#8221; insanity.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ohio vs. The Gaia Cult\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Throughout the world, including the United States, make places are declaring that 'nature' and ecosystems, such as rivers and glaciers.  The city of Toledo, Ohio voted to give legal rights to Lake Erie.  It turns out the state of Ohio wasn't having any of that idiocy.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-nature-rights.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Throughout the world, including the United States, make places are declaring that &#8220;nature&#8221; and ecosystems, such as rivers and glaciers. The city of Toledo, Ohio voted to give legal rights to Lake Erie. It turns out the state of Ohio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/08\/05\/ohio-vs-the-gaia-cult\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,26],"class_list":["post-15811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gop","tag-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15813,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions\/15813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}