The push to grant legal rights to nature is gaining momentum

The motion to offer timber, rivers and ecosystems the authorized proper to exist, thrive and regenerate has been effervescent underneath for many years, nevertheless it has simply scored a really welcome win, says Graham Lawton

By Graham Lawton

I AM penning this from New York City, the place New Scientist not too long ago opened an workplace. I’m an city creature so I really feel at house right here, however inexperienced area is skinny on the bottom. There is Central Park however, in contrast to London, there are only a few small patches of nature to supply respite from the tempo of life within the epicentre of late-stage capitalism.

It is a bit of ironic, then, that New York can be one of many epicentres of a motion that might do a lot to problem the hegemony of Twenty first-century firms. Just up the street from right here, attorneys …