The push to grant legal rights to nature is gaining momentum

The movement to give trees, rivers and ecosystems a legal right to exist, thrive and regenerate has been bubbling for decades, but says it has achieved a very welcome victory. Graham Lawton

To Graham Lawton

I am writing this from New York City. new scientist We recently opened an office. I’m a city creature, so I feel at home here, but the green space is thin on the ground. very few.

So it’s a bit ironic that New York is one of the epicenters of a movement that can do a lot to challenge corporate hegemony in the 21st century. Get out of here, Lawyer…