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Is a River Alive?
by Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane travels to Ecuador, India and Quebec to ask whether rivers are living beings with rights, and what answering yes would change. Lyrical and political.
Read it if…
you want the rights-of-nature question explored on the ground.
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Skip it if…
you want a straight travelogue.
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Three things you will actually use
- Rivers can be persons.
- Language shapes law.
- Listen to water.
Do this first
Read the Ecuador section.
Our verdict
Macfarlane's river.
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