Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest v. The Mine

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True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ecuador was the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) has not heard many cases in the decade or so since the law was added. The new Constitutional justices made a point of picking several cases to test rights of nature, and in 2021 handed down a major judgement about the future of one of the world's most biodiverse cloud forests.

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0:00.0	Hey Drill listeners, I wanted to bring you this episode of Damages, our new show because
0:12.9	it's about Ecuador and dovetails with our season on the Chevron Ecuador case back in season
0:20.0	five. This episode gets into Ecuador's history as a leader in the rights of nature movement.
0:26.7	It was the first country to bake rights of nature into its constitution. That happened
0:31.8	under Rafael Correa right around the time that things were starting to really shift around
0:37.4	the Chevron Ecuador case down there. The constitutional court in Ecuador just released
0:42.5	a ruling in late 2021 that was pretty groundbreaking and has really started to spark some interesting
0:49.3	changes in both climate law in general and rights of nature across the board. We get into
0:54.9	all that and more in this episode. I hope you enjoy it and please go and check out damages.
0:59.9	We're doing some really exciting work over there and I want you guys to listen to it.
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1:51.8	Welcome back to damages. I'm Amy Westervalt. So far this season, we've looked at how
2:07.2	rights of nature has worked in both tribal court and district courts in the United States.
2:13.9	What would the law have to look like to correspond to a state of affairs in which the river had
2:20.3	rights? The suit would have to be brought in the name of the river. The river would be the
2:24.3	planet, not Jones. But for most folks, if they've heard about rights of nature at all,
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