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Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights. Terrasse-Vaudreuil 1st municipality in Canada to sign on to Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree. (www.cbc.ca)
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[-] tyler@programming.dev 21 points 2 weeks ago

"We know corporations have legal personhood and rights and they are definitely not living," she said in a phone interview. "So if some nonliving things can have legal personhood, what's stopping living beings from equally getting legal personhood?"

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