You may be thinking that this is a novel concept, how can non-sentient, seemingly inert beings have the same legal rights as a person, but it’s a juridical idea dating back to the 1820’s with a tree that owned itself...
Category: Environment
Environmental Racism: How Inequality is Unsustainable.
Environmental racism is defined as the discrimination of low-income and minority communities on environmental grounds, exposing said communities to degraded land, pollution and the effects of climate change. Deep-seeded in history, this issue is still playing out today at both the national and international level...
