Thomas Linzey on Nature's Rights and Self-Owning Land
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
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The Role of the Environment in the Rights of Nature
In Tamakua borough, any resident of the community of Tamakua has the legal authority under that law to step into the shoes of the ecosystem as a plaintiff. "We need something that either replaces this existing environmental regulatory nature as property system with something else or augments and strengthens it," he says. 'Because after all, we're talking about human ability to voluntarily restrain ourselves from exploiting nature'
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