Bolivia grants "Earth Rights" to Nature

[auroraglacialis]

I will not say that stones have sex, but I would like to point out that it also pays to give inanimate or "non"sentient objects certain "rights", just like a corporation can be a "legal person" and has rights despite it being a fictional entity, existing entirely on paper only. For example "nonsentient" insects play a vital role in ecology and thus life on this planet, including humans. And "inanimate" objects like water, rivers, lakes, air and yes even rocks also play their own vital roles. To treat them as equals ensures that they wiill continue to fulfil their part and in the end that humans also get into trouble.
If that includes people thinking stones have sex, animals are sentient, trees can talk or if that is all just a bunch of DNA-machines to you, by keeping nature, the biosphere and its inanimate elements alive, this also goes to humanity. We are after all a part of the biosphere.

"The future of a whole nation" thus actually cannot be unlinked from conservation.

Of course one thing has to be clear - the old fashined idea of conservation, to take some hundred square miles of land, put up a fence, take away all people and create some human-free "Nature" is nonsense. The way conservation has to work is, as I believe is thought of in this law, to give them equality - creating a balance, people living with nature, not rule over it, consume it but also not retreat completely from it.