[doodah]

This could be a good thing. Since the US represents the rape-the-Earth mentality, this fits with the Ecuadorians' recent proposal to grant legal rights to "Nature." As most of you know, Corporations gave themselves "personhood" under the law in the US sometime in the late 1800s. A Corporation is treated as a single unit, a person.

[One wonders if a real live biological human being is still considered to be a person under the law, it is so screwed up!]

There is a movement in the US to address this absurdity of legalese by declaring natural environments to be people, too, so as to be able to establish equal footing and fight some of the Corporate mauling. Several towns and localities now have such legal statements on their books. Ecuador is the first country I am aware of to take this same approach. God bless 'em!