Should Nature and Animals Be Given “Personhood” and Treated Like People?

There is a fascinating legal movement happening across multiple countries that is posing some big questions about whether animals and the environment itself should be afforded protection by being assigned the rights of personhood. While this may seem like an extreme tactic dreamed up by activists, the results seem to be going further than the fringe and may soon reach more communities around the world.

Read alongside the news that the United Kingdom now recognizes octopuses as sentient, it does seem there's a movement happening to rethink some of our most basic assumptions of who or what should be treated like a person and given rights accordingly.