New Zealand Becoming The First Country To Make A River A Living Person Is Soft As Fuck
BBC- The New Zealand parliament passed the bill recognising the Whanganui River, in North Island, as a living entity. Long revered by New Zealand’s Maori people, the river’s interests will now be represented by two people. The Maori had been fighting for over 160 years to get this recognition for their river, a minister said.
“I know the initial inclination of some people will say it’s pretty strange to give a natural resource a legal personality,” said New Zealand’s Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson. “But it’s no stranger than family trusts, or companies or incorporated societies.”
What kind of shit is this New Zealand? I’ve always known you as the badass little brother of Australia. Granted all I know about you is Steven Adams, the crazy scenery from Lord of the Rings, and the haka dance.
But still, those are three pretty strong things to have associated with your country. A move like this strikes me as something the French would pull. I don’t know much about Denmark, but I’ll blindly call Denmark a sissy country and lump them in there as well. And California would DEFINITELY be the first state to pull a bullshit stunt like this about how everything from the Earth is a living being. But not you, New Zealand. This is hippy shit. What are you going to do the first time some drunk bloke gets caught pissing in the river? You gonna throw the book at him on some R. Kelly shit? Of course not. Jails are already overcrowded in this world. We don’t need to be locking more people up for being dicks to Mother Nature. That’s the only thing humanity knows how to do. Destroy the Earth for personal gain. Once you take that away from us, we are no different than all the animals we passed on the food chain centuries ago. Taking away man’s right to destroy Mother Nature is like taking away his arms and legs.
