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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

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In 2019, the city of Toledo, Ohio adopted the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a municipal law that gave the lake rights of its own. In 2019, a group of Peruvian youths filed a suit against Peru, alleging that the government has not taken sufficient action to address climate change. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash.