{"id":17924,"date":"2021-05-04T00:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T07:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17924"},"modified":"2021-05-04T00:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T07:19:12","slug":"two-creeks-a-marsh-and-two-lakes-walk-into-a-florida-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/05\/04\/two-creeks-a-marsh-and-two-lakes-walk-into-a-florida-courtroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Creeks, A Marsh, And Two Lakes Walk Into A Florida Courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

     The drive to grant \u201crights\u201d to nature<\/a> and to allow \u201cnature\u201d to sue<\/a> (via<\/em> human environmental extremists, of course) to stop any type of development or alteration has finally, despite state preemption<\/a>, gone to court in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBackers of the newly approved Orange County Charter amendment granting legal rights to nature elements have sued Florida on behalf of five water bodies to stop a development in southeastern Orange County.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnically, two creeks, a marsh, and two lakes are the plaintiffs suing, along with \u2018rights of nature\u2019 advocate Charles O\u2019Neal of Apopka.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs allowed under a radical, untested legal theory dating to the 1970s, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and a developer are being sued by Wilde Cypress Branch, Boggy Branch, Crosby Island Marsh, Lake Hart, and Lake Mary Jane, along with O\u2019Neal, who is best known as president of the conservation organization Speak Up Wekiva.<\/p>\n

\u201cProponents of rights of nature are saying the suit filed Monday in Florida\u2019s 9th Judicial Circuit is a big test case, not just in Florida, but nationally. It is the first-ever rights of nature enforcement case in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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     In reality, this isn\u2019t \u201cnature\u201d suing, but human beings suing<\/a> on behalf of some made-up right of swamps and other places in need of development\u2026 all to counter development for human beings not <\/em>in order to protect a marsh or swamp, but to give the warm fuzzies to twig-worshiping idjits.<\/p>\n

     When \u201cnature\u201d has rights, then humans don\u2019t<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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     The drive to grant \u201crights\u201d to nature and to allow \u201cnature\u201d to sue (via human environmental extremists, of course) to stop any type of development or alteration has finally, despite state preemption, gone to court in Florida. \u201cBackers of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,70,26,68],"class_list":["post-17924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-facepalm","tag-green","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924","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=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17925,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions\/17925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}