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Is a river alive? / Robert Macfarlane

This work examines the movement to recognise rivers as living beings with legal rights. It explores environmental campaigns in Ecuador, India, and Quebec, analysing the implications of granting personhood to waterbodies to protect them from mining and damming.

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