{"id":15986,"date":"2019-10-23T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2019-10-23T00:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T07:10:25","slug":"florida-democrats-swamps-are-people-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/10\/23\/florida-democrats-swamps-are-people-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democrats: Swamps Are People Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

     It is becoming increasingly common around the world, including the United States of America, to grant human rights to \u201cnature<\/a>\u201d or \u201cGaia<\/a>\u201d, including granting \u201crights\u201d to rivers<\/a>, glaciers<\/a>, and mountain<\/a>\u2014and then let eco-radicals sue on behalf of said geographic features. Now, the Florida Democratic party<\/a> is making it part of their platform.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlmost overlooked at the Florida Democratic Party\u2019s bi-annual convention in Orlando last weekend was adoption of a platform resolution that includes potentially revolutionary language for efforts to protect Florida\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the \u2018be it resolved\u2019 clauses in a \u2018Demand Clean Water\u2019 resolution approved by the party\u2019s general meeting includes a handful of key words: \u2018recognizing and protecting the inherent rights of nature, as we have done for corporations.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seemingly odd wording is a nod to an emerging national legal strategy in the environmental protection community, one that already is appearing in other statements in Orange County and elsewhere. The effort is to legally declare that rivers, lakes, forests, estuaries, reefs, or other natural features may have inherent rights against degradation, which can be defended in court, much as corporations have been found to possess inherent rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion has been emerging in recent years, and is being contested in courts, notably in a multi-pronged battle in Toledo, Ohio. Yet it has roots in a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case, in which Justice William O. Douglas proposed it, in a dissenting opinion for an environmental dispute, creating a concept which environmental activists now are seeking to validate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Pictured: Typical Florida Politician<\/p><\/div>\n

     Yes, this scratches a religious itch for many on the Left, but it also scratches their itch for power and dominion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMake no mistake: \u2018Nature rights\u2019 isn\u2019t about stopping pollution. Rather, it allows anyone to sue to protect nature\u2019s supposed right to \u2018exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.\u2019 That\u2019s akin to a right to life. (Apparently, human fetuses aren\u2019t considered part of nature.) That means any use of the natural world that disturbs what would otherwise exist in the wild is subject to legal attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine the lawfare extortion possibilities. At the very least, major, job-producing enterprises could be brought to a screeching halt. Try getting a liability insurance policy if the carrier knows anyone can sue to protect \u2018nature\u2019s rights.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     When things have more right than people, it is not the things that are elevated, but that people are diminished.<\/p>\n

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     It is becoming increasingly common around the world, including the United States of America, to grant human rights to \u201cnature\u201d or \u201cGaia\u201d, including granting \u201crights\u201d to rivers, glaciers, and mountain\u2014and then let eco-radicals sue on behalf of said geographic features. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[15,70,26,68],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-facepalm","tag-green","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986","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=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15988,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions\/15988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}