Posted on 07/30/2009 6:04:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
In the 70s, Obama's Science Adviser Endorsed Giving Trees Legal Standing to Sue in Court Thursday, July 30, 2009 By Christopher Neefus
(CNSNews.com) – Since the 1970s, some radical environmentalists have argued that trees have legal rights and should be allowed to go to court to protect those rights.
The idea has been endorsed by John P. Holdren, the man who now advises President Barack Obama on science and technology issues.
Giving “natural objects” -- like trees -- standing to sue in a court of law would have a “most salubrious” effect on the environment, Holdren wrote the 1970s.
“One change in (legal) notions that would have a most salubrious effect on the quality of the environment has been proposed by law professor Christopher D. Stone in his celebrated monograph, ‘Should Trees Have Standing?’” Holdren said in a 1977 book that he co-wrote with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich.
“In that tightly reasoned essay, Stone points out the obvious advantages of giving natural objects standing, just as such inanimate objects as corporations, trusts, and ships are now held to have legal rights and duties,” Holdren added.
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So mowing my lawn makes me a mass murderer?
That’s for sure. This is the same guy who thinks newborn babies aren’t human until they’ve been “properly socialized.”
poor trees, leaf them alone
A special zoo for the Obama freakshow needs to be built.
So, if you crushed a pine cone, would that be considered an abortion?
This is a demon controlled administration stacked with greenie earth worshipers and godless communists and fools.
And fools elected this monster and his allies and will sow what they have reaped.
The chickens are coming home to roost, as one monster said.
Judge to tree: “I’m waiting for a response! Any more delays and I will hold you in contempt of court”!!!
Classic freeper brilliance in your spot on humor!!!
...some radical environmentalists = Gaia Worshipers
And they called Michael Jackson freaky????
Thanks...but one concern. Signature on PAPER? Very awkward...
The oaks are just too greedy we will make them give us light....
And the Maples scream “Oppression!”...
Soon you’ll see people asking for a marriage license between a woman and a “limb”. Or how about the fellow who wanted to marry his apply pie?
If I go to court and ask to see the President’s Birth Certificate, they would throw me out because I have “no standing”. Perhaps I should have my pine tree go instead. Might have better luck.
. . . and I thought I knew the length and breadth and depths of Liberal insanity!
Yes, and it’s considered abuse if you don’t feed it.:)
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