STONE Christopher.
Should Trees Be Able to Plead? Preface by Marine Calmet and Afterword by Catherine Larrère.
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| N° d'inventaire | 25621 |
| Format | 12.5 x 18 |
| Détails | 192 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782369355205 |
In recent years, New Zealand and India have granted legal personality to three rivers, while Ecuador's new constitution has made nature a subject of law. These revolutionary measures owe much to one man, Christopher Stone. In 1972, to counter a Walt Disney Company project that threatened a redwood forest, this jurist proposed granting rights to the trees.
With this text, he made a decisive contribution to raising awareness of the intrinsic value of nature. The originality of his position lies in its legal character: by granting nature the right to defend itself in court through representatives, he opened the way to the primacy of its preservation over pure economic calculation.
Catherine Larrère, philosopher, and Marine Calmet, lawyer and activist, show how this pioneering text renews our relationship with nature and the living. Towards a nature that defends itself!
With this text, he made a decisive contribution to raising awareness of the intrinsic value of nature. The originality of his position lies in its legal character: by granting nature the right to defend itself in court through representatives, he opened the way to the primacy of its preservation over pure economic calculation.
Catherine Larrère, philosopher, and Marine Calmet, lawyer and activist, show how this pioneering text renews our relationship with nature and the living. Towards a nature that defends itself!
With this text, he made a decisive contribution to raising awareness of the intrinsic value of nature. The originality of his position lies in its legal character: by granting nature the right to defend itself in court through representatives, he opened the way to the primacy of its preservation over pure economic calculation.
Catherine Larrère, philosopher, and Marine Calmet, lawyer and activist, show how this pioneering text renews our relationship with nature and the living. Towards a nature that defends itself!