Waving our rights (to the ocean)
December 29, 2024 9:23 PM   Subscribe

The history of protecting a unique surfing wave in Brazil, [nautilus link] and also the (very slow) recovery of the area and its indigenous communities after a widespread mining disaster from a site owned by VALE. Article also constitutes a useful review of the growing global movement to give personhood (and rights - via community representatives of the feautures) to trees, rivers and landscape features.

Another way into rights of nature thinking is Jane Gleeson-White's, Six Capitals: The Revolution Capitalism Has to Have – or Can Accountants Save the Planet? (first edition is what I've read). A long review at cambridge.org which looks at how the book addresses intangibles.

Gleeson White is also an astrologer and it would be good if that was not used to discredit her sound economics for the world we urgently need (we are all multitudes).
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FWIW here are some previous MeFi FPPs on this topic.
posted by Lyme Drop at 11:27 PM on December 29


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