Our Wild World

Today we’re discussing civil rights, however, probably not what first comes to your mind, considering these turbulent times. With my guest Steven Wise, the founder and president of The Nonhuman Rights Project, the only civil rights organization in the United States working gain legally recognized and fundamental rights for nonhuman animals in the courtroom. One by one, these cases of law of personhood are gaining a groundswell of movement, a paradigm shift of how we interact and perceive the other earthlings and non-humans we live amongst and with. The paradigm shift holds hope that eventually, we humans will shift our mindset to understand that earth is a person, with the full associated rights of law. We humans have given ‘personhood’ to corporations, which may be at the bottom of these entities breaking her apart for sheer economic gains. With these cases one by one, NhRP activism globally builds the human mindset that all life on earth has basic civil rights