Explain the reasons informing the Argument for the “Rights of Nature” and Water in Kolbert’s (2022), Lake Mary Jane is Suing to Protect Itself : ‘Testing the Waters’, which draws upon Stone’s (1972) recognition of natural objects’ personhood, along with animals and forests rights in “Should Trees Have Standing?”

Assignment Question

These are the directions, I’m attaching a rubric labeled “Final Essay Rubric” that has specific directions and I’m attaching all the sources that are asked here. ” First, explain “Moral Agency” – Rational Animal, Self, Person, Relative Self, Relational Autonomous Being—described by the ancient philosophers we’ve read in this class (Aristotle, Epicurus), by the Modern philosophers Descartes and Hume, and the contemporary views shaped by Women epistemologists and Noddings’ Care Ethics. Second, analyze the reasons for extending Personhood status to constituents of “Nature”—living and non-living—and for recognizing the “Rights” of bodies of Water so they have legal “standing” as a basic element of a healthy biome. Explain the reasons informing the Argument for the “Rights of Nature” and Water in Kolbert’s (2022), Lake Mary Jane is Suing to Protect Itself : ‘Testing the Waters’, which draws upon Stone’s (1972) recognition of natural objects’ personhood, along with animals and forests rights in “Should Trees Have Standing?” Thirdly, evaluate the reasons informing Smith’s (2021) discussion of the New Zealand Māori views about the Sacred Spirit of a river in “Nature is Becoming a Person.” Lastly, conclude by taking a stand on the (moral) reasons for granting Personhood to natural bodies of Water—Oceans, Seas, Rivers, Streams, Marshes, Wetlands, Glaciers—and whether you think nature’s constituents do or do not have the Rights of Nature.”