"Personhood" for Land

[Ben]

So apparently this isn't The Onion, has already been done in New Zealand, and has advocates in the US.

Assigning legal "personhood" to land so that environmentalists can represent it as their "client".

http://www.outsideonline.com/2102536/parks-are-people-too-legally-speaking?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweet

[KD5NRH]

So apparently this isn't The Onion, has already been done in New Zealand, and has advocates in the US.

Assigning legal "personhood" to land so that environmentalists can represent it as their "client".

http://www.outsideonline.com/2102536/parks-are-people-too-legally-speaking?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweet

So if I marry Carlsbad Caverns National Park, does that mean they have to give me 24 hour access and not complain if I wander through the caves naked?

Taking "hot dog down a hallway" to new extremes...

[JN01]

Parks are people but unborn babies are not.  Sounds about right. 

[TommyGunn]

Does the park self identify as male or female?  Or transgender?  Or part of the LGTREWHGFT  community?

[dm1333]

 

Movement Rights also worked with Mendocino County, in northern California, to write an ordinance giving the county the right to be free from fracking.

“Even in the more accessible areas around Bakersfield, initial attempts to exploit the Monterey shale have not shown much,” Estabrook told the AVA. “  
He continued, “As far as I know, there are no known oil and gas deposits in Mendocino County, shale or conventional. Exploration and identification of deposits would take years (decades). If any deposits were found, they would have to be large-scale enough to justify the enormous costs of developing them, especially given the lack of oil and gas infrastructure here.”

http://theava.com/archives/29538

Sigh.  The citizens of Mendo County are worried about possible fracking in a place with no oil or gas and continue to ignore the reality of the numerous diesel (marijuana) grows in the county and the damage caused  by them.    Talk about misplaced priorities!  Thanks Ben, you managed to make me both miss Mendocino County and remember why I wrote off the place and decided not to retire there.  

[Hawkmoon]

So if a male gorilla marries a female parcel of land, what do they produce as offspring when they consummate the marriage?

[Triphammer]

An Ape-iary?

[grampster]

King Cong grass man?

[Ben]

 
 

http://theava.com/archives/29538
Thanks Ben, you managed to make me both miss Mendocino County and remember why I wrote off the place and decided not to retire there.  

My pleasure! 

[tokugawa]

The closest example I can think of is when inanimate objects are charged with a crime and confiscated under the obscene RICO statutes.

[Perd Hapley]

So if a male gorilla marries a female parcel of land, what do they produce as offspring when they consummate the marriage?

A silverback-forty?

[just Warren]

Measured in apers?

[MechAg94]

I guess it is like suing on behalf of the spotted owl.