climate change dispatch logo climate change dispatch logo small

Environmentalists Are Holding Rallies To Give A River Rights

Dozens of environmentalists crowded into a Denver café last week to voice support for the “rights” of the Colorado River in a lawsuit against the state, Colorado’s Post-Independent reports.

Members of the environmental group Deep Green Resistance (DGR) brought the lawsuit in late September. The is the first case in the U.S. where a group has attempted to give nature a legal standing to “exist” and “flourish,” according to a Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) press release.

“I’ve long acknowledged that what we are doing in the environmental movement has not created change,” DGR member Deanna Meyer told the Post Independent. “We see every biotic system on the planet in decline and nothing has gotten better. Until the river has rights, I don’t see any change happening in the way it is being used and exploited.”

Colorado officials filed a motion to dismiss the case several weeks after the original complaint was filed.

“The complaint alleges hypothetical future injuries that are neither fairly traceable to actions of the state of Colorado nor redressable by a declaration that the ecosystem is a ‘person’ capable of possessing rights,” the motion says, according to the Post Independent.

DGR is committed to stopping “industrial civilization from burning fossil fuels.” The group promotes returning to a “sustainable” culture or completely cutting out fossil fuels.

“Life on Earth is more important than this insane, temporary culture based on hyper-exploitation of finite resources. This culture needs to be destroyed before it consumes all life on this planet,” the group’s website reads. “Humanity is not the same as civilization. Humans have developed many sane and sustainable cultures, themselves at risk from civilization.”

Read more at Daily Caller

Comments (3)

  • Avatar

    Spurwing Plover

    |

    They should rename themselves Dark Green Stupidity just what have they been smoking lately besides 100% Dope?

  • Avatar

    Sonnyhill

    |

    Are these the same guys who want the legal right to marry their dog?
    Why has sanity lost its appeal?

  • Avatar

    JayPee

    |

    Why not give rights to the

    EARTH

    The SOLAR SYSTEM

    The MILKY WAY GALAXY

    The UNIVERSE

    The EMPYRION
    and whatever might lie after that !
    It makes as much sense.

    All you have to do is feed drugs to a leftist
    ” thinker ”

    And you’ll be astonished with the
    SURREALISM
    They come up with.

Comments are closed

Share via