"We know corporations have legal personhood and rights and they are definitely not living," she said in a phone interview. "So if some nonliving things can have legal personhood, what's stopping living beings from equally getting legal personhood?"
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So is cutting down a tree murder now? What about importing lumber?
In Beyond Supernature, Lyall Watson claimed trees could mount a defense against attack (by raising tannin levels in their leaves), and communicate to neighboring plants they were under attack, so neighboring plants would also raise their tannin levels.
He said Desrochers' film, called Des arbes et des arts convinced citizens that trees are living entities that breathe and communicate with each other through their root systems.
I wanna go live there now. That's like autism heaven.
I found the film they talk about in the article
https://archive.org/details/csur1qc-BANDE_ANNONCE_-_DES_ARBRES_ET_DES_ARTS
What a cool place to live, what cool people to do this
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