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Nature Rights
Waterways Granted Personhood
This year, the Whanganui River, in New Zealand, became the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person. Equally vital, a court in northern India has given the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers, as well as several glaciers, the legal status of “living human entities” to help in the pres- ervation and conservation of the country’s highly polluted waterways, thus allowing polluters to be sued. These decisions are variants of
“rights of nature” measures that date back to the 1970s. More than three dozen U.S. localities have ordinances ascribing varying types of rights to nature or to specific natural objects. In America, rights of nature
activism usually takes the form of ballot initiatives that emerge to contest the power of corporations wherever local natural resources are seen as being threatened. The first such ordinance was passed in 2006, when Tamaqua Borough, in Pennsylvania, sought to protect the town’s drinking water from the nearby dumping of sewage sludge. More recently, an ordinance
from the Boulder (Colorado) County Protectors, with assistance from the Community Environmen- tal Legal Defense Fund, asserting the “right to a healthy climate,” was recognized as a federal constitu- tional right by Judge Ann Aiken, of the U.S. District Court in Oregon.
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napolis, set out to find out if massage therapy—typically an out-of-pocket expense not covered under most insurance plans—can provide effec- tive treatment for individuals suffering with chronic back pain. The study followed 76 primary care
patients with chronic back pain for 24 weeks. The researchers measured pain, disability and quality of life at the beginning of the study, after 12 weeks and again after 24 weeks of massage therapy. Each patient was referred to a licensed massage therapist for 10 no-cost sessions in a real-world environment during the initial 12 weeks. More than half of the patients that completed the core study reported
clinically meaningful improvements for physical and mental measures. For bodily pain, 40 percent were clinically improved. Older adults and Baby Boomers reported the highest percentage of changes. Plus, the study found that sufferers that avoided taking painkillers were twice as likely to experience reduced pain than those using opioids.
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