Episode 62: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature with Natalia Greene

Life on Earth unfolds through complex, living relationships.  Forests, oceans, animals and microorganisms sustain the cycles that make life possible, circulating oxygen, regenerating soils, and shaping climates.  Humans are part of these systems, not separate from them.  Our lives depend on the integrity of these relationships, even as they exist far beyond us.  Yet the natural world is often treated as a resource, something to extract from, convert, and monetize rather than as a community of living beings with their own inherent rights.  We have yet to learn how to live in true reciprocity within the Earth’s systems.  On this Wild For Change podcast, Natalia Greene, Director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) joins us.  GARN is an organization helping to reawaken a deeper truth: that nature is not something we own, but a living world we belong to, with rights of its own.The Rights of Nature challenges us to rethink one of our most fundamental assumptions—that nature exists for us. Instead, it asks: what if we are part of a larger living system with its own rights? And what responsibility comes with that understanding? This is not just a legal shift—it’s a shift in perspective, in values, and in how we choose to live in reciprocity with nature.Website: http://www.wildforchange.comTwitter: @WildForChangeFacebook: /wildforchangeInstagram: wildforchange