"For years," writes Robert Macfarlane, "Lake Erie — the southernmost of the Great Lakes — has been in ecological crisis. ... Appalled by the lake’s degradation, and exhausted by state and federal failures to improve Erie’s health, in December 2018 Toledo City councillors drew up an extraordinary document: an emergency 'bill of rights' for Lake Erie. At the bill’s heart was a radical proposition: that the 'Lake Erie ecosystem' should be granted legal personhood." This is the radical new animism "by which writers, scholars, lawyers, and politicians are radically reassessing our place in the natural world." It’s getting dark, but it's not there yet.
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