The effort to give legal rights to nature gains momentum

The motion to legally give timber, rivers and ecosystems the correct to exist, thrive and regenerate has been effervescent for many years, however now it is a welcome win, he says. Graham Lawton

With Graham Lawton

I am scripting this from New York Metropolis, the place New Scientist lately opened an workplace. I’m an city creature so I really feel at residence right here however the inexperienced house on the bottom is weak. There’s Central Park, however not like London, on the epicenter of late capitalism there are few little bits of nature to get away from the tempo of life.

It’s considerably ironic, then, that New York can also be one of many epicenters of a motion that may do a lot to problem the hegemony of twenty first century firms. Up the highway from right here lawyers …