" Cullinan, who is based in South Africa and was once an anti-apartheid activist,
achieved recognition for his work fighting, often successfully, for legal systems
to recognise the rights of rivers, forests and things “other than human beings” so they could be defended in court cases.
(Chicks and adults of the busy emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill Island, Antarctica. Photograph: David Merron )
"The idea of giving species and places legal “personhood”, outlined in his 2002 book, Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice,
became part of a wider global movement recognising rights of nature and animals."
"Instead of being treated by the international community and law courts as a
“territory claimed by a number of countries that stuck flags in the ice a while ago … at best, a laboratory and at worst, a potential source of oil, gas, minerals and krill”,
he wants Antarctica to be legally protected as “an astounding living community” and “a being in its own right”."
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"USS Mount Olympus. (AGC-8)
was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named for the highest peak in the Olympic Mountains of the State of Washington.
She was designed to be an amphibious forces flagship—a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations."
"In September, Mount Olympus was made the flagship for Operation Highjump, the U.S. Navy's Antarctic Expedition"
"The Antarctica Declaration would, by contrast, recognise that
all Antarctic beings have rights that humanity must respect and protect.
People around the world are being invited to support it and declare a new legal status of “personhood” for Antarctica. “
Citizens United, for continents.
Can't we aim higher than personhood? Meat?
"If the Antarctic ice sheet melted entirely, it would raise global sea levels by about 58 metres.
In 2020, an article in the journal Nature estimated that even a 1-metre rise
would put “48% of the world’s land area, 52% of the global population and 46% of global assets” at risk of flooding."
"Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km2 (5,500,000 sq mi).
Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
"About 70% of the world's freshwater reserves are frozen in Antarctica,
which, if melted, would raise global sea levels by almost 60 metres (200 ft). "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
"Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes
is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England,
John Donne, published in 1624. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotions_upon_Emergent_Occasions
The 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, includes the phrases "No man is an Iland" (often modernised as
"No man is an island") and
"...for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."
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