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Alice in the land of plants - A comment
12021-05-03T04:58:46-07:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d309861plain2021-05-03T04:58:46-07:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7dWhy do humans only appreciate and value plants for their usefulness? Humans are so blinded by power and greed, they feel the need to exploit, consume, and oppress living beings to assert a revolting sense of hierarchy. In the first chapter of Alice in the land of plants, Manetas objects the anthropocentric views on plants by exposing the irony in human ignorance for plant life when their livelihood depends on plants. Plants power the ecosystem; they are humble, glorious, fragile, and strong living beings, which also deserve to have their own rights. This brings us to Marder’s question, “Should plants have rights?”. We all know their values, earthly significance, and contributions, so why shouldn’t they have rights? Plants should not have to spend thousands of years trying to prove their worth to humanity to receive plant rights when they exist way before any other living beings. They have the rights to exist, just as humans have the right to co-exist in the plant worlds.
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1media/pexels-photo-418831.jpeg2018-08-24T02:40:21-07:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7dAlice in the Land of Plants and Should Plants have rights?9Annotated by Hiba Alhamidawiplain2018-12-01T05:12:43-08:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d