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The Rights of Nature
In 2017, New Zealand’s Parliament passed a law granting legal personhood to the Whanganui River. Granting legal rights and personhood to nature might seem crazy at first. But David Boyd explains in this book that extending rights to non-humans isn’t so strange after all, and could help save the planet. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Law and justice
Tagged animal rights, book review, climate change, environmental law, nonfiction, rights, rights of nature, social science, sustainability
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Talking to Strangers
I’ve read most of Malcolm Gladwell’s books and quite a few of his New Yorker articles. I love his podcast Revisionist History. He is a terrific writer and storyteller. Though he has a tendency to wander off on maddening digressions, … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, malcolm gladwell, nonfiction, social interaction, social science, sociology, talking to strangers
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