Bolivia is to pass a law — called la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra (The Law of Mother Earth) — which will grant nature equal rights to humans.
The law — the first of its kind — aims to encourage a major shift in attitudes towards conservation and to reduce pollution and exploitation of natural resources. It sees a range of new rights established for nature including the right to life; the right to water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities and the right to be free of pollution.
While I agree with the pollution thing (who wouldn’t really?), we have dominion over plants and animals, with only viruses above us in the food chain. So unless the viruses made this rule, it’s rubbish.
What happens to a Bolivian that eats a carrot, for god’s sake? Is he committing a crime? I mean, if the carrot has the same rights as the man, how dare the man eat it??
Come to think of it, what about all the cocaine that clearly went into the creation of this law? Will Bolivians still be able to cut the Coca plant and produce the coke?
So the Bolivians are the first to go bonkers over environmentalism. Guess Elizabeth May will be moving.
Thank God it’s spring. I might catch the guillotine for using my fireplace.
I might just ponder all this latest ecochonodria from Bolivian snort lords as I nonchalantly SPRAY the living hell out of the roaches that have decided to move into the garage. Down here in SC they’re armor plated, and larger than housecats, but we don’t afford them any rights, or (the next step in Gaia’s Progressivism, one guesses) in the state senate just yet.