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The Rights of Nature: Saving the Planet or Harmful to Humanity?

Organisation Gonzaga University/ Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights
Date 19th October 2021 05:30 PM (GMT)
Link https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/events/2021/10/19/the-rights-of-nature-saving-the-planet-or-harmful-to-humanity
Email imateCenter@gonzaga.edu

Moderated debate hosted by Brian G. Henning, Director of the Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment, Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies.

Key speakers:

Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel, the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER).

He is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary “community rights” and “rights of nature” movements, which have resulted in the adoption of several hundred municipal laws across the United States.

Wesley J. Smith, Chair and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism.

Mr. Smith is an attorney, and serves as Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism.

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