Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - a guest argues that the growing trend of giving legal rights to nature is wrong and harmful, and how activists are working in Vermont and other states and communities to build energy policy in the absence of national leadership.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Last week, Grant Wilson of the Earth Law Center advocated for recognizing legal rights for nature. This week, Wesley J. Smith of the Center for Human Exceptionalism at the Discovery Institute argues the opposite case: that humans are the only beings on the planet entitled to legal rights.
www.discovery.org/human/about/
www.nationalreview.com/corner/amazon-river-legal-rights-granted-court/

"We're still here" was the message from a delegation of U.S. states to the most recent UN climate change conference, after the Trump administration announced it will withdraw the country from the Paris climate accord. Lauren Hierl of Vermont Conservation Voters will talk about the work of their organization and its allies in Vermont and around the country to have a locally-based strategy on energy.

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story by Samara Anderson, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

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