Fun facts: the UK has crazy laws protecting trees and hedgerows. There’s a national tree registry for old boys.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    when the people who make the rules say “Sorry, the rules are the rules, there’s nothing we can do” remember that they literally gave a tree human rights just because they felt like it.

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      6 months ago

      Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.

      Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.

  • shimdidly@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive and change lol lol lol

    Like abortion? Thank goodness we repealed Roe Vs Wade