Can You Be Sued By A River?

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Can you be sued by nature? In some places, the answer is already yes. Guests: Evelyn Bellanger -- White Earth Band of Ojibwe elder Frank Bibeau -- tribal attorney and a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe Nico Albert -- member of the Cherokee Nation and the executive chef of Burning Cedar Indigneous Foods Jacinta Ruru -- professor of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand Thomas Linzey -- Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights Teresa Vicente Gimenez — professor of philosophy of law at the University of Murcia. Philomena Kebec -- Indian law expert LISTEN TO THE 99 PERCENT INVISIBLE EPISODE HERE → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Rose here and before we get to today's episode, I am just popping in with a little
0:05.1	exciting announcement. Um, so for a lot of last year Ozzy, Linus Goodman, and I worked with
0:10.4	the Verge to develop a television show about the future. And today, the day that this
0:16.4	episode is in your feed, which is June 28th, 2022, you can watch all 12 episodes of that television
0:24.1	show. It is called The Future of It's on Netflix, I think, in basically every country at this point.
0:29.7	And I do hope that you check it out. Uh, supporters got a behind the scenes look at the show on
0:34.4	the bonus podcast last week. So if you are curious what it is like to make a television show,
0:39.4	you can check that out. But yeah, please do take a look. We worked really hard on it. I think it's
0:44.6	really fun and it's hopeful and it's full of interesting weird ideas. Plus, uh, if you like this
0:50.4	kind of thing, you get to see me on camera, which is rare because I tend to stay behind the mic
0:54.8	or behind the scenes, but there I am on screen doing weird things with my hands because I never know what
0:59.1	to do with my hands during interviews. It's called The Future of It's on Netflix. Please go check it
1:02.9	out. And with that, uh, on with the show.
1:14.8	Ah, hello there, Fairlisters. It is me, Rose. And we are here with sort of a surprise
1:18.8	episode. So Ozzy and I are still working on the special project for this year. But we are excited
1:24.6	to bring you a special sort of like bonus surprise episode to tide you over for just a little
1:29.9	bit longer. So last year, Ozzy and I started looking into doing an episode about something called
1:35.7	Environmental Personhood. This idea that a place could become classified as a legal person to
1:42.6	protect it from pollution or damage. So we started reporting that episode. We did some interviews
1:47.6	and then I happened to bend it to one of our dear friends over at 99% invisible, the podcast.
1:53.2	And they were really interested in this idea too. So we teamed up and what you are about to hear
1:58.5	is the episode that we made together plus a couple of additional odds and ends that did not wind up
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