San Francisco attorney fights to gain legal rights for forests

If Mother Nature is the sergeant-at-arms of the forest world, then Missy Lahren might just be head of its legal branch. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.
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[@Sunset4Semaphores]

Trees already have more rights than people in most peninsula counties and towns.
Protecting old growth forests is a different thing. They are way up north of the bay and continue to be logged.

[@navarruh]

That’s beautiful. Trees for everyone. 🖤

[@petergriffin5302]

Lorax speaks for the trees

[@wafflewafflegod]

They both have mustaches 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@davinxi5926]

Never heard of her . Where has she been since the 90s

[@bradleybruvva3021]

I feel it.. looking at satellite images of different states and looking at big cities they’re absolutely covered in grey and beige, literal concrete jungles. We need to protect some of these forests and also add more tree coverage to our current cities. We need to protect the animals and the biodiversity because everything works together whether we see it or not. We don’t want oxygen, we need it. We need to protect the places supplying us with the most oxygen.

[@CEOkiller]

Trees are people??

[@writerconsidered]

Better than corporations are people.

[@user-js3lw1tt8f]

What's the carbon footprint on all those drugs in San Francisco?

[@noname2023m]

"Trees are people too, save this tree!"

[@geraldbennett7035]

And she will speak for the forests? Right. Of course.

[@juicyfruit6311]

Plants need rights and protections, too. Those evil vegans are consuming plants.

[@user-ld8mb1ep5m]

If corporations and such entities have rights why can't forests and such entities have the same

[@sweetliquidsnake]

Because China already bought most of them

[@user-ld8mb1ep5m]

@@sweetliquidsnake explain

[@beatpirate8]

wow this is amazing! what an amazing woman! thank you for all
that you do for us!

[@wafflewafflegod]

This is some very coded sarcasm to make fun of her, right?😂

[@Napoleon-xp3sm]

I need some cool wooden furniture.

[@OhNoNotAgain42]

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the Maples want more sunlight
And the Oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the Maples
And they’re quite convinced they’re right
Is that the Oaks are just too greedy
And they’ve grabbed up all the light
But the Oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the Maples
Can’t be happy in their shade
I guess she listened to Rush as a kid also. It never occurred to me to base my career on this song

[@Yobabywhatscrackin]

I appreciate her. Keep up the great work

[@peterbedford2610]

Great

[@user-js3lw1tt8f]

Clean up the problems in San Francisco first

[@hyphydan]

Non-profit scam.

[@mjb0183]

Kooky women wandering in the woods talking like a 12 year old.

[@shiloniousmonk]

What if the tree identifies as a cat?

[@dtsh4451]

What are proper pronouns for the trees 😂?

[@BallardBaller]

Better than counting corperations as people

[@denizliberal]

Audrey, let’s have a cuppa coffee, honey, you’re single I am single.

[@donwan2637]

I think she is 🤪 😜

[@MargaritaRodriguez-tu4wq]

XOCHITL GALVEZ FOR PRESIDENT OF MEXICO VIVA MÈXICO 🇲🇽❤💯