{"id":90860,"date":"2019-11-04T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/uncategorized\/lake-erie-bill-of-rights"},"modified":"2021-02-20T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:14:29","slug":"lake-erie-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/documentation-centre\/lake-erie-bill-of-rights","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie Bill of Rights, USA-Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Lake Erie \u2013 the southernmost of the Great Lakes (between Canada and the USA) has been in ecological crisis. Invasive species are rampant. Biodiversity is crashing. Each summer, blue-green algae blooms in volumes visible from space, creating toxic \u201cdead zones\u201d; the algae is nourished by fertiliser and slurry pollution from surrounding farms. In August 2014, phosphorus run-off so fouled Erie that the city of Toledo, at the lake\u2019s western tip in Ohio, lost drinking water for three days in the hottest part of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Appalled by the lake\u2019s degradation, and exhausted by state and federal failures to improve Erie\u2019s health, in December 2018 Toledo city councillors drew up an extraordinary document: an emergency \u201cbill of rights\u201d for Lake Erie. At the bill\u2019s heart was a radical proposition: that the \u201cLake Erie ecosystem\u201d should be granted legal personhood, and accorded the consequent rights in law \u2013 including the right \u201cto exist, flourish, and naturally evolve. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights was adopted on 29 february 2019.<\/p>\n<p>More information: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/nov\/02\/trees-have-rights-too-robert-macfarlane-on-the-new-laws-of-nature<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-90860\" data-postid=\"90860\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-90860 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Lake Erie \u2013 the southernmost of the Great Lakes (between Canada and the USA) has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":90853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,118],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-90860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentation-centre","category-legal-documents","tag-rights-nature","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91336,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90860\/revisions\/91336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}