I have some problems with people… any people, who choose to blame current generations for the “sins of the past”. I could not get past the first 5 minutes of her seeming arrogance simply because she feels empowered to use a bully pulpit due to her heritage. In no way is she not a citizen. The error of the past has been fixed, but she’s fixated upon that to give herself more leverage? Sadly I could not even get to her message about her views on water. She has no more claim on it than I do. It falls from the sky, percolates into the earth, runs off into the watershed, or evaporates to start the whole cycle again. Respecting the process does not mean I have to hold her views, or for her to hold my views. I didn’t need her “preachiness” today.
Quinn Stromberg writes for The Pulp in Montana. His summary puts it well:
I recently watched a Ted Talk by legal scholar Kelsey Leonard in which she asked the question: “Does water deserve personhood?” At first I thought it was a silly concept that a lake, an ocean, or a river could be considered a person. Then I realized that personhood is a condition that demands respect, which is a concept that is severely lacking when it comes to our planet. If water had legal and moral rights, it would require humans to hold true to our environmental responsibilities as inhabitants of this Earth.
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I have some problems with people… any people, who choose to blame current generations for the “sins of the past”. I could not get past the first 5 minutes of her seeming arrogance simply because she feels empowered to use a bully pulpit due to her heritage. In no way is she not a citizen. The error of the past has been fixed, but she’s fixated upon that to give herself more leverage? Sadly I could not even get to her message about her views on water. She has no more claim on it than I do. It falls from the sky, percolates into the earth, runs off into the watershed, or evaporates to start the whole cycle again. Respecting the process does not mean I have to hold her views, or for her to hold my views.
I didn’t need her “preachiness” today.
Quinn Stromberg writes for The Pulp in Montana. His summary puts it well:
I recently watched a Ted Talk by legal scholar Kelsey Leonard in which she asked the question: “Does water deserve personhood?” At first I thought it was a silly concept that a lake, an ocean, or a river could be considered a person. Then I realized that personhood is a condition that demands respect, which is a concept that is severely lacking when it comes to our planet. If water had legal and moral rights, it would require humans to hold true to our environmental responsibilities as inhabitants of this Earth.