{"id":21007,"date":"2024-08-27T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21007"},"modified":"2024-08-27T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T07:15:32","slug":"glaciers-are-politicians-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/27\/glaciers-are-politicians-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Glaciers Are Politicians Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

     There is a certain obsession with the \u201cNature Rights\u201d crowd with making objects morally equivalent to humans. They\u2019ve done this with lagoons<\/a>, lakes<\/a>, moons<\/a>, swamps<\/a>, rivers<\/a>, and mountains<\/a>. \u00a0 Now, not only are glaciers<\/a> like people<\/a> too, they can even be politicians<\/a> and run for office!<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe campaign that sought to nominate Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull, an Icelandic glacier, for president was the first attempt within Iceland to establish Rights of Nature. It differs from typical strategies like using legislation or court rulings, but the basis of establishing legal rights for natural features remains the same.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Geologists predict all glaciers in Iceland will disappear in the next 150 to 200 years, Iris Valckx, a campaign spokesperson and environmental lawyer, emphasized in an interview with GlacierHub. \u2018This is irreversible and highlights the need to shift from a global perspective of egocentrism to ecocentrism.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as logistics went, the campaign argued that Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull met all the requirements of running for presidency under the Icelandic constitution: it was a de facto Icelander (having been there for centuries), was over 35 years old and had no criminal record.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And of course, it\u2019s a Leftist<\/p><\/div>\n

     Sure, you might see a cat made station master of a Japanese train station, a dog elected mayor, or a dog serving as a sergeant in the military, but these cute critters didn\u2019t get these honorary ranks because they have human rights. And they certainly aren\u2019t big hunks of Icelandic frozen water.<\/p>\n

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     There is a certain obsession with the \u201cNature Rights\u201d crowd with making objects morally equivalent to humans. They\u2019ve done this with lagoons, lakes, moons, swamps, rivers, and mountains. \u00a0 Now, not only are glaciers like people too, they can even … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,6],"tags":[9,70,26,68],"class_list":["post-21007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","category-science","tag-europe","tag-facepalm","tag-green","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007","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=21007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21008,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007\/revisions\/21008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}