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to learn more. This is Climate 1. I'm Greg Dalton. Western law generally treats the natural environment

as property with all rights resting with its owners.

So if we're treating the Earth and if we're treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately we as property owners have the right to destroy our property.

And that fundamentally has to change.

If corporations can be legal persons, why can't Mother Earth?

And who should defend the rights of our collective natural resources?

What are the rights and responsibilities of individual owners versus the government's obligation

to preserve those resources or at least some decent quality of the resource

because we all rely on that. We can't live without water or air.

Can a forest or river have legal rights of its own? Climate One's empowering conversations

explore all aspects of the climate emergency. I'm Greg Dalton. In the last several years,

a growing number of countries and places within the U.S. have tried to establish legal standing

for natural ecosystems. In 2017, New Zealand granted the Waganui River the full legal rights

of a person. India also recently granted full legal rights to the

Ganges and Yamuna rivers and recognized that the Himalayan glaciers have a right to exist.

In the United States, those efforts have been more complicated and frequently overturned by the

courts. I've invited two guests to talk through the history and complexities of the rights

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