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New Zealand declares a river a person
More logic be damned cause the ends justify the means BS.
I am not a fan, at it does is prove that the law does not mean anything, that those who are in charge are going to do what ever they want to do, and then paper over the justification. There is a fundamental lack of honesty on the part of the elite which is a cancer on civilization.
This will not end well.
http://www.economist.com/news/asia/...llution-and-other-abuses-new-zealand-declaresIT SOUNDS, admits Chris Finlayson, like a “pretty nutty” idea. Yet the new law that declares the Whanganui river, New Zealand’s third-longest, a legal person, in the sense that it can own property, incur debts and petition the courts, is not unprecedented. Te Urewera, an area of forested hills in the north-east that used to be a national park, became a person for legal purposes in 2014..
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Days after the law passed, an Indian court declared two of the biggest and most sacred rivers in India, the Ganges and Yamuna, to be people too. Making explicit reference to the Whanganui settlement, the court assigned legal “parents” to protect and conserve their waters. Local lawyers think the ruling might help fight severe pollution: the rivers’ defenders will no longer have to prove that discharges into them harm anyone, since any sullying of the waters will now be a crime against the river itself. There is no doubt that of the 1.3bn-odd people in India, the Ganges and the Yamuna are among the most downtrodden.
More logic be damned cause the ends justify the means BS.
I am not a fan, at it does is prove that the law does not mean anything, that those who are in charge are going to do what ever they want to do, and then paper over the justification. There is a fundamental lack of honesty on the part of the elite which is a cancer on civilization.
This will not end well.
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