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Posted by speckx 3 days ago

Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights(www.cbc.ca)
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tamimio 3 days ago|
So when they plan to cut it for whatever reason, they will have to submit a MAID request for the tree to be legally taken down?
balozi 3 days ago||
This is what lawmakers that don't want to deal with the real life issues do. They work on nonsense laws while citizens live in squalor.
cagey 3 days ago||
Obligatory: Rush - The Trees (Live From The Montreal Forum / 1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H0lwRqNF5I

superultra 3 days ago||
I just finished Michael Christie’s Greenwood, a generational epic on family and, well, trees. Part of the book takes place in a future where the only trees left in the world are on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia where the rich go to replenish.

It’s eco-dystopian science fiction (by a Canadian no less) but I wonder if the people in that future would’ve supported something like this now. I imagine probably.

NSUserDefaults 3 days ago||
Do they pay taxes?
gchamonlive 3 days ago||
For something to be recognized as a living being with rights does it need to pay taxes?
roughly 3 days ago|||
On every penny they make.

The property taxes are largely offset by the carbon credits, though.

dudeinjapan 3 days ago||
You're forgetting about property taxes (adverse possession / squatter's rights.)
dudeinjapan 3 days ago||
No, they are tax cheats. It has been notoriously hard to arrest them and send them to jail however.
la64710 2 days ago||
Jainism
adjejmxbdjdn 2 days ago||
So they’re all vegan right…

Right…

Right…????

ReptileMan 3 days ago||
Can we send them end grain cutting board as a gift?
profdevloper 3 days ago||
Nice -- now can they do fetuses?
UrineSqueegee 3 days ago|
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