Question

Consider the following statements regarding Legal Rights for Nature:

1. Giving legal rights to nature means the law can see nature as a legal person.

2. Legal rights for nature enable nature to go to court to protect its rights.

Which of the above statement is/are correct?

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2​

Answer 1

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In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric vapor of water that falls under gravitational pull from clouds.[2] The main forms of precipitation include drizzling, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. Precipitation occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes saturated with water vapor (reaching 100% relative humidity), so that the water condenses and "precipitates" or falls. Thus, fog and mist are not precipitation but colloids, because the water vapor does not condense sufficiently to precipitate. Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated: cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air. Precipitation forms as smaller droplets coalesce via collision with other rain drops or ice crystals within a cloud. Short, intense periods of rain in scattered locations are called showers.

Answer 2

Option C - Both 1 and 2

More Information

☆ What are legal rights for nature ?

• Legal rights are not the same as human rights, and so a “legal person” does not necessarily have to be a human being. Corporations, for example, are also treated in law as “legal persons”, as a way to endow companies with particular legal rights and to treat the company as legally distinct from its managers and shareholders.

• Giving nature legal rights means the law can see “nature” as a legal person, thus creating rights that can then be enforced.

• Legal rights focus on the idea of legal standing (often described as the ability to sue and be sued), which enables “nature” (Court-appointed individual) to go to court to protect its rights. Legal personhood also includes the right to enter and enforce contracts, and the ability to hold property.

☆ Rivers as Legal Persons :-

• The extension of legal rights to rivers is ground-breaking and largely unprecedented.

• For ìnstance, the rivers have received their legal rights in different ways (via legislation or judicial decision), for different purposes (environmental protection, religious beliefs, and indigenous values) and by using different legal forms as the basis for legal rights and personhood.

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