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Opinion: There's a common denominator to every effort to assign legal personhood to entities found in the natural world, said Stepan Wood, professor at Allard School of Law and the director of the Centre for Law and the Environment at the University of British Columbia.
Opinion: Many of the things that are spelled out here are already in our legal system," said Alexandra Flynn, an associate professor and director of the housing research collaborative at the University of British Columbia. "If people endanger public safety, they can already be arrested
Opinion: This line of thinking is deeply rooted in Indigenous customs. For the Maori, for example, in New Zealand, humans are lowest on the totem pole of the natural world, says Meghan Robinson, a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia who is completing her doctoral research on the Rights of Nature. And to the Arhuaco and Kogi peoples in Colombia, says Davis, the water that runs down a river is no different from the blood that runs through one’s veins.
Opinion: “If municipalities are left kind of holding the bag, it doesn't excuse them from fulfilling their constitutional responsibilities,” UBC law professor Stepan Wood said. “Often municipalities find they are balancing the housed residents' interests in recreation and tidy, orderly spaces, aesthetically pleasing public space, on the one hand, with unhoused people's ability to survive. And it is often the interests of the taxpaying residents that outweigh the really more fundamental interests in basic human dignity and survival.”
Opinion: Climate change is no longer just an environmental law issue – it is set to reshape nearly every area of law, says Carol Liao, a corporate law scholar at the University of British Columbia and an advocate for sustainable business.
