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Justice William O. Douglas: Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

We the People

CHAPTER

Douglas's Dissent

Sierra Club B. Morton, of course, is the case where Walt Disney wanted to build a ski resort in California. In his dissent, he talks about what we now know as rights of nature. He wrote that really in the space of about two hours when he got off the bench. And it raises that issue about why nature and the environment can't have a voice.

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