Bolivia grants "Earth Rights" to Nature

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Some good news! Rare these days but this leaves me hopeful. Bolivia seems to be passing extensive environmental protection laws but not as environmentalist laws, but in the shape of "human rights" - in this case "earth rights". Giving the nonhuman world and the indigenous people living within this world the appreciation of fundamental rights is a big step, I can only hope they will hold true to the ideals they put into these laws.

Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth | Environment | The Guardian

Bolivia is set to pass the world's first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth[...] will establish 11 new rights for nature. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.

Controversially, it will also enshrine the right of nature "to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities".