Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 17 hours agoQuebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights. Terrasse-Vaudreuil 1st municipality in Canada to sign on to Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.www.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up186cross-posted to: canada@lemmy.ca
arrow-up186external-linkQuebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights. Terrasse-Vaudreuil 1st municipality in Canada to sign on to Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.www.cbc.caLemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 17 hours agomessage-square59fedilinkcross-posted to: canada@lemmy.ca
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·16 hours ago “We know corporations have legal personhood and rights and they are definitely not living,” she said in a phone interview. “So if some nonliving things can have legal personhood, what’s stopping living beings from equally getting legal personhood?”