Human rights for mother nature?

[thesummerqueen]

PS - I have never said anything remotely sounding like climate denialism. I'm in school to be a horticulturalist, ffs. I sort of like the planet, considering it's my home here in the vastness of space and all.

It's the over-the-top language and human arrogance I think is ridiculous.

Here: I rag on conservatives all the time, but I equally loathe bleeding heart liberals who want to PC the place up and sit in drum circles singing kumbayah and pretending each tree has a dryad living in it. If the people who attend Earth Day rallies and "Save-the-Planet" gatherings are a measure of knowledge required to 'save' this floating blue ball, well...there's a lovely saying that goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

We have ways of eliminating or toning down the damage we DO inflict - but they're not politically expedient. That's partially an education problem, and partially an apathy problem, and I'd say a good deal a HUMAN problem because people who don't have enough to eat or barely a roof to sleep under, which is a good portion of the world's population, don't give a flying fuck what Al Gore has to say on energy usage.