In 2014, Aotearoa New Zealand (the country’s full name) became the first in the world to recognise an area of land – Te Urewera in the Northeastern corner of the North Island – as having the status of legal personhood. This act of law acknowledged that the future of the planet depends on respectful relationships between its humans and more than human co-inhabitants.
Put another way, recently, by Amitav Gosh: “The questions of who is brute and who is fully human, who makes meaning and who does not, lie at the core of planetary crisis”
