Comments on: The Return of the Vandal(s) http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/2011/01/11/the-return-of-the-vandals/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Maria Theresa Stadtmueller http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/2011/01/11/the-return-of-the-vandals/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Maria Theresa Stadtmueller Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:34:23 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middland/?p=2186#comment-525 I’d say the other dude is a fool–not you, Tim. You didn’t say trees were people–you said they were animate and vulnerable, which they are. Interestingly, Bolivia is passing laws granting nature rights equal to those of humans. They have created a governmental Department of Mother Nature. It’s about time. Wish some consumer nation would do the same.

from the Guardian (UK)
Bolivia enshrines natural world’s rights with equal status for Mother Earth
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation

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