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From the Ted Talk by Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
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We know we are in a global climate crisis, but globally, our waters are also threatened, and we are facing a glbaol weatr cisris, and if we want to address these crises in our lifetime, we need to change. We need to fundamentally transform the way in which we value water. And this is not something new for us as Indigenous peoleps. Our Indigenous legal systems have a foundational principle of understanding our nonhuman rioetlnas as being lvinig and protected under our laws. And even for the Western world, environmental legal theorists have argued for the rights of nature since the 1970s. But we need to do better. We need to change. And we need to grant legal ponrosheod to water, because it affords the following rights and protections. It grants water the right to exist, flourish, and naturally elovve, and most of all, it protects the water from us, from human beings that would do it harm, from human-caused climate-change impacts, from pollutants, and from man-made contamination. Moreover, it reverses the ateccped hierarchy of humanity's domination over nutrae. As human beings on this planet, we are not superior to other beings on this planet. We are not superior to the water itself. We have to learn how to be good srdtewas again.
Open Cloze
We know we are in a global climate crisis, but globally, our waters are also threatened, and we are facing a ______ _____ ______, and if we want to address these crises in our lifetime, we need to change. We need to fundamentally transform the way in which we value water. And this is not something new for us as Indigenous _______. Our Indigenous legal systems have a foundational principle of understanding our nonhuman _________ as being ______ and protected under our laws. And even for the Western world, environmental legal theorists have argued for the rights of nature since the 1970s. But we need to do better. We need to change. And we need to grant legal __________ to water, because it affords the following rights and protections. It grants water the right to exist, flourish, and naturally ______, and most of all, it protects the water from us, from human beings that would do it harm, from human-caused climate-change impacts, from pollutants, and from man-made contamination. Moreover, it reverses the ________ hierarchy of humanity's domination over ______. As human beings on this planet, we are not superior to other beings on this planet. We are not superior to the water itself. We have to learn how to be good ________ again.
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Original Text
We know we are in a global climate crisis, but globally, our waters are also threatened, and we are facing a global water crisis, and if we want to address these crises in our lifetime, we need to change. We need to fundamentally transform the way in which we value water. And this is not something new for us as Indigenous peoples. Our Indigenous legal systems have a foundational principle of understanding our nonhuman relations as being living and protected under our laws. And even for the Western world, environmental legal theorists have argued for the rights of nature since the 1970s. But we need to do better. We need to change. And we need to grant legal personhood to water, because it affords the following rights and protections. It grants water the right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, and most of all, it protects the water from us, from human beings that would do it harm, from human-caused climate-change impacts, from pollutants, and from man-made contamination. Moreover, it reverses the accepted hierarchy of humanity's domination over nature. As human beings on this planet, we are not superior to other beings on this planet. We are not superior to the water itself. We have to learn how to be good stewards again.
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