Poll Of The Month: Should Trees Have (legal) Standing?
I came across this question in a book recommended to me by a few thoughtful subscribers and friends. It felt appropriate to pose it to all of you considering the current focus of the Book Club Series.
Here are some of the pages in question that provide some context to this month’s Poll Of The Month from “The Overstory” by Richard Powers:
For further context and additional reading and viewing on this subject:
https://apnews.com/article/religion-sacred-rivers-new-zealand-86d34a78f5fc662ccd554dd7f578d217
screenshot from the article linked above:
Given that our statist judicial/law enforcement system has granted Legal Personhood to Corporations (which are often entities that are involved in racketeering operations, using tax payer money that involve mass murder of humans, ecocide for profit, coercing and gaslighting billions of people into becoming part of fraudulent and deadly medical experiments, toxic genetic contamination and monopolization of our global food supply and all kinds of other nefarious activities carried out in broad daylight, sanctified by governments and enforced by thugs with badges) this begs the question, what about granting legal personhood to actual living beings that are not human?
If rivers have now been granted legal personhood in an effort to protect the sacred life giving waters that governments and corporations are poisoning at an alarming rate, what about our photosynthetic rooted elder beings in the kingdom of trees?
Now that I have provided some background info, context and explanations of terms (in the articles, pages and videos shared above) I will pose the question to all of you. Should Trees Have Standing?
I would appreciate it if you could elaborate on your reason for voting yes, no or not sure in the comments section to promote constructive discussion.
Thank you in advance to those who are taking the time to vote and comment to promote constructive discussion and hold up a candle to the mirror.
This question should be NEITHER a flat-out 'YES', or a flat-out 'NO'.
This is a VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE, if one answers, 'YES'; and one WILL live to regret it!
In the above screen shot text, where it states the 'things' that do (via lawyers) have 'standing'; Corporations, states, Uni's, ect. MOST of what was listed, EXCEPT 'infants' (and 'incompetents'), should NOT 'have standing', since these are institutions, and NOT LIVING BEINGS.
The 'law' that we operate under now, is MARITIME LAW; this is your Globalist Masters' 'LAW'.
It is an ANTI-HUMAN/ANTI-LIFE system of 'law'. WE (We, The People) SHOULD be operating under COMMON LAW! Period! Under Common Law, the before mentioned 'institutions' are NOT held above Humans/Nature; they are BENEATH US, and THEY DO what WE TELL THEM to do. With Maritime Law, it is THE INSTITUTIONS that are HELD ABOVE Humans/Nature.
My point in bringing up 'law'.....is that we do NOT WANT GOVT making these kinds of 'laws' (ie 'Trees having Standing'), for it will NOT END WELL for Humans AND Nature! ONLY the INSTITUTIONS will benefit! EXAMPLE: You cannot cut down tress to heat your home, or you'll go to prison for doing so. While a Developer comes in and clears 100 acres of trees to build a Mall and Condos.....and that's OK!
With all of that said, I think that corporation AND govt should NOT be allowed to 'mow down trees'!
Individual HUMANS......SHOULD be able to....AS LONG AS there is a NEED for taking down trees.
These NEEDS include.....clearing (a 'small' clearing) a wooded area to build your home ('Developers' should NOT be allowed to do this! THINK: MALLS, CONDOS or SUBDIVISIONS!); this includes building that home FROM THE TREES that you took down. Taking down trees on your wooded property for NEEDED space to GROW FOOD (Big Agra should NOT be allowed to do this! THINK: FACTORY FARMS). And although ALL woods have downed/felled trees within it, that can (and SHOULD) be used for firewood to HEAT ONES HOME, one SHOULD be able to take down trees, when one cannot get to those trees already downed.
Things like this, that individual HUMANS need trees/wood/clearing property for.
GOD GAVE US THESE THINGS FOR US TO USE.
But we also HAVE TO be Good Stewards of the Land. Which means ONLY taking what a Human NEEDS; REPLACING what one uses (ie RE-PLANT new trees), and keeping the planet CLEAN. This is OUR (ie HUMANS) Right! And NOT INSTITUTIONS!
This SHOULD be Our (Humans) Common Law! DO NOT involve the CRIMINAL/CORRUPT govt(s)!!
Imagine.....one day you lose your home. You then go into the woods to clear a space, and start cutting trees to use those trees to build yourself a new home in those woods/that space, because you don't have any $$ to BUY/REPLACE the home you just lost. THEN......along comes THE GOVT to inform IT'S SLAVE (YOU!) that you CANNOT do that, and they throw you in jail for 10 years for cutting down trees!
It's a SLIPPERY SLOPE to vote 'YES'!
And the above 'poll' SHOULD have a FORTH Option: 'A Combination of BOTH!'
I said no for the only reason that if we were to 'personify' a tree then they have the same 'rights' as we humans which you can see from the entity of the person versus the sovereign man or womb man these rights seemingly belong to babylonia and we currently have no say what happens to us.
Should we consider to actually put true values on the environment in its form of a complete Biosphere: 'ABOVE' as in the 'atmosphere,' where there currently is continuous poisoning onto all of us 'persons;' as well as all 'Below' and all the resources, artesian lakes and waterways, microcosm or organisms. Why stop at a 'Tree Standing' let's value it all for what it is and make MUCH more conscious choices of how we utilize these resources taking only what is needed and with reciprocation in mind.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book really spoke to me in this way Gavin. Her book, "Braiding Sweetgrass." is a story of where she bridges her PhD in Botany with Traditional Practices of the Indigenous ways. The story is about reciprocation and this I feel has been replaced by greed and ownership and rights.
National Georgraphic's definition of Biosphere: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/biosphere/