Archive for June, 2011

Human Rights for Non-Human Entities: Nature and the Corporation

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Pacha Mama Some countries in the Western Hemisphere have given constitutional rights to non-human entities — with opposite effects on their democracies. While Ecuador and Bolivia stand to strengthen their democracies by declaring human-like rights for Pacha Mama, that is, Nature, the United States, has weakened its democracy by giving human rights to the business […]

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