Utah Goes Up Against “Nature Rights”
Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong.A bit ago, I warned that environmental radicals were pushing to grant rights to the Great Salt Lake. Thankfully, legislators noticed and passed a bill prohibiting granting rights to any non-human aspects of nature. From H.B. 0249: 63G-31-102. Legal personhood restricted.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a governmental entity may not grant legal personhood to, nor recognize legal personhood in:(1) artificial intelligence;(2) an inanimate object;(3) a body of water;(4) land;(5) real property;(6) atmospheric gases;(7) an astronomical object;(8) weather;(9) a plant;(10) a nonhuman animal; or(11) any other member of a taxonomic domain that is not a human being. There has been advocacy among environmentalists to grant rights to nature broadly understood and to each of these identified categories, hence the need for a detailed Read More ›
