{"id":17381,"date":"2020-12-08T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17381"},"modified":"2020-12-08T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:17:13","slug":"missouri-vs-the-gaia-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/12\/08\/missouri-vs-the-gaia-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri vs. The Gaia Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the footsteps states like <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/08\/05\/ohio-vs-the-gaia-cult\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/02\/26\/florida-vs-the-gaia-cult\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/missouri-bill-to-ban-rights-of-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Missouri<\/a> is considering a bill to ban \u201cnature rights\u201d. \u201cNature rights\u201d are legal constructions by which \u201cnature\u201d (including rivers, plants, rocks, &amp;c.) has legal rights and can by human proxies who act on behalf of \u201cnature\u201d to sue to stop anyone from doing anything with any part of nature.<\/p>\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;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The operative sections of the bill, HB 54, as introduced:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. Nature or any ecosystem shall not have standing to participate in or bring a civil action in any court of this state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. (1) No person on behalf of or representing nature or an ecosystem shall bring a civil action in any court of this state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(2) 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 civil action brought in any court of this state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(3) Any plaintiff bringing a civil action shall be human and shall not represent nonhuman entities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The bill can be read below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Missouri House Bill 54\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/486620226\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-C2FuAl7vl4QfODjpGFmX\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p  style=\"   margin: 12px auto 6px auto;   font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;   font-style: normal;   font-variant: normal;   font-weight: normal;   font-size: 14px;   line-height: normal;   font-size-adjust: none;   font-stretch: normal;   -x-system-font: none;   display: block;\"   ><a title=\"View Missouri House Bill 54 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/486620226\/Missouri-House-Bill-54#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Missouri House Bill 54<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/188606198\/ThePoliticalHat#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ThePoliticalHat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/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=\"Missouri vs. The Gaia Cult\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In the footsteps states like Ohio and Florida, Missouri is considering a bill to ban 'nature rights'.  'Nature rights' are legal constructions by which \n'nature' (including rivers, plants, rocks, &#038;c.) has legal rights and can by human proxies who act on behalf of 'nature' to sue to stop anyone from doing anything with any part of nature.\" \/><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;In the footsteps states like Ohio and Florida, Missouri is considering a bill to ban \u201cnature rights\u201d. \u201cNature rights\u201d are legal constructions by which \u201cnature\u201d (including rivers, plants, rocks, &amp;c.) has legal rights and can by human proxies who act &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/12\/08\/missouri-vs-the-gaia-cult\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[33,26],"class_list":["post-17381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-gop","tag-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381","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=17381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17383,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions\/17383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}