Natural Rights - WOMADelaide 2023

People assign themselves rights over nature all the time.  The right to extract, or the right to protect.  But what happens when you give nature its own rights?   What happens when we extend human rights to the earth?     

When policy fails, can the legal system step in?  What if rivers had human rights? Join Community leader, advocate and scholar Anne Poelina, legal scholars Erinn O’Donnell and Peter Burdon on recognising personhood in the ecology around us.

SPEAKERS
Erin O’Donnell, Anne Poelina, Peter Burdon 

HOST
Tanya Ha

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