{"id":20450,"date":"2023-11-09T13:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20450"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:52:06","slug":"quick-takes-in-service-to-gaia-science-schools-milwaukee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/11\/09\/quick-takes-in-service-to-gaia-science-schools-milwaukee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 In Service To Gaia: Science, Schools; Milwaukee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Slaves to an imaginary spiritual Earth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-T_HHcrj4o?si=VSlctMx1odoJlxyO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9685\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mother_nature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mother_nature.jpg 480w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mother_nature-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ironic that a journal called \u201cScience\u201d is shilling the cultish \u201cnature rights\u201d movement that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/scientists-urged-to-aid-rights-of-nature-in-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nothing to do with actual science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe rights of nature\u2013which include geological features\u2013are generally defined as the right to \u2018exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.\u2019 Nature is, of course, not sentient. So, this campaign is really about granting environmental extremists legal standing to enforce their policy desires through litigation as legal guardians serving nature\u2019s best interests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut the movement has a problem. It is clearly ideological rather than rational. So now, three law professors and a biologist writing in Science urge scientists to promote the agenda by giving courts a scientific pretext to enforce nature rights laws, or even, impose the agenda from the bench (as has already been attempted several times). From, \u201cScience and the Legal Rights of Nature:\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c\u2018By contributing to interdisciplinary analyses of rights-of-nature laws before disputes arise, scientists can help contribute to the effectiveness of these laws. The availability of credible scholarly analysis of legal scientific terms used in law would make these rights more tangible and accessible to the judges whose role it is to apply them. Although scientific uncertainty often cannot be eliminated, it\u2019s reduction in turn reduces legal uncertainty and thus helps meet the objection that rights-of-nature laws are too vague to be applied.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd here it really gets irrational:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c\u2018Another type of interdisciplinary scholarship that would assist the functioning of rights-of-nature laws would be the examination of the duties of nature. Although some rights-of-nature laws grant rights for nature without corresponding duties, others equate nature to a legal person with both rights and duties. Uncertainty over liabilities and duties of nature has been an impediment to implementing some rights-of-nature laws. Scientists can help legal systems comprehend nature\u2019s potential legal obligations (e.g.,\u201cecosystem services\u201d), and what environmental protection measures may also be legally required to ensure natural entities can continue to fulfill these obligations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGood grief. Such nonsense in a science journal. \u2018Nature\u2019 is not a moral entity. It is not conscious. It is not a discrete thing. It includes everything from rock outcroppings, to algae, swamps, oceans, lion prides, earthquake faults, glaciers, and the moon. It\u2013and its constituent aspects\u2013cannot owe anything or anyone duties. No matter how destructive, a river that floods has done nothing \u2018wrong.\u2019 The very notion is nonsensical.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A school in Leipzig has decided the turning children into good little <a href=\"https:\/\/medforth.biz\/germany-leipzig-school-obliges-children-to-attend-climate-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaia Jugend<\/a> is exactly what Germany needs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLast Friday, participation in the \u2018Global Climate Strike\u2019 of the radical organisation \u201cFridays for Future\u201d was compulsory for tenth graders at a Leipzig grammar school. Previously, students had skipped school for this, but this time everyone had to go \u2013 even those who didn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is because participation was declared compulsory as part of a \u2018sustainability project day\u2019. Morning and afternoon classes were cancelled for this purpose. But the action violates the legally prescribed neutrality requirement of schools. Political demonstrations are taboo. Beforehand, there had been a vote in the class on several local demonstrations, reports the headmaster. A majority decided in favour of the demonstration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Milwaukee County has now endorsed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/milwaukeecounty.legistar.com\/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=12288004&amp;GUID=D5D6F125-A5D1-4D55-92C7-DFB182990505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nature rights<\/a>\u201d and supports eco-cultists who have an anti-human agenda.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHEREAS, major bodies of water within Milwaukee County, including the Menominee River, Milwaukee River, and Fox River as well as Lake Michigan, provide essential biodiversity and wildlife habitats; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHEREAS, these bodies of water require a \u201crights of nature\u201d protection, which will help Milwaukee County to be the healthiest in the State of Wisconsin due to its restoration as a natural wonder; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHEREAS, the \u201crights of nature\u201d policy is symbolic in nature, which recognizes Milwaukee County\u2019s bodies of water as integral and essential to the environment, as this policy returns rivers and lakes to its their natural purpose; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHEREAS, the Committee on Community, Environment, and Economic Development, at its meeting of September 11, 2023, recommended adoption of File No. 47 23-785 as amended (vote 4-0); now, therefore,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BE IT RESOLVED, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors hereby supports the \u201crights of nature\u201d movement across waterways and bodies of water in Milwaukee County for protection and ensuring human activities do not interfere with nature and its ability to be healthy, robust, and resilient.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ultimately, <em>anything<\/em> humans do can be seen as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/milwaukee-county-passes-rights-of-nature-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interfering with nature<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlmost anything we do, at least in some fashion, \u2018interferes with nature,\u2019 including controlling vermin, preventing floods, and building housing projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWaterways can, should be, and are protected from pollution and improper uses through proper regulations. But granting \u2018rights\u2019 to nature\u2013including geological features\u2013profoundly undermines the concept of \u2018rights\u2019 itself by removing it from exclusively applying to the human realm. Moreover, if \u2018nature\u2019 has rights, so does everything within it, from guppies, to mosquitoes, to weeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/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=\"In Service To Gaia: Science, Schools; Milwaukee County\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Slaves to an imaginary spiritual Earth.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mother_nature.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Slaves to an imaginary spiritual Earth &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/11\/09\/quick-takes-in-service-to-gaia-science-schools-milwaukee-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9,26,24,42,69],"class_list":["post-20450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-europe","tag-green","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450","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=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20452,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions\/20452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}