Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 3 days agoQuebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights. Terrasse-Vaudreuil 1st municipality in Canada to sign on to Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.www.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1106arrow-down1external-linkQuebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights. Terrasse-Vaudreuil 1st municipality in Canada to sign on to Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.www.cbc.caLemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 3 days agomessage-square65linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·3 days ago “We know corporations have legal personhood and rights and they are definitely not living,” she said in a phone interview. “So if some nonliving things can have legal personhood, what’s stopping living beings from equally getting legal personhood?”