A number of animals, as well as entire species, have tried to defend their rights in a court of law. Mary Jane, a lake suing the state of Florida, is the first of its kind.
When Ecuador’s new constitution was adopted, in 2008, it marked another, much more significant world first. The constitution’s preamble celebrates, usually translated from Quechua as “Mother Earth,” and a later section enumerates the rights thatenjoys. These include “the right to integral respect for its existence” and “the right to be restored.
With the help of some other Orange County residents, O’Neal wrote up a “bill of rights” for the Wekiva River and for the Econlockhatchee, a second river that passes near Orlando. He presented the bill to a commission that had been appointed to revise Orange County’s charter. To his surprise, the commission didn’t just take up his proposal; it expanded it.
What had once perhaps been the house’s den was bathed in violet light and outfitted with speakers. Dierdorff told us that he was also collecting sound: at each waterway he sampled, he stuck a waterproof mike into the depths. He had layered sixteen of these recordings on top of one another, and the resulting track was playing on a loop. “I think of it as kind of a chorus,” he said.
The objection that streams and forests cannot have standing because streams and forests cannot speak was, in Stone’s view, easily addressed. “Corporations cannot speak either,” he observed. “Nor can states, estates, infants, incompetents, municipalities or universities.” And yet these entities were amply represented—some might say overrepresented—in the courts.
“I’m a personal-injury lawyer,” he told me as soon as I sat down. Mostly he filed workers’-comp cases. He had got involved with O’Neal, he explained, because of a dead bear.
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