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(WND News Center) – A Colorado mountain town long known for its off-the-charts wackiness – one resident stored his father’s dead body on dry ice for years pending some expected resurrection process – now has voted to give its watershed “inalienable rights.”
It is the Denver Post’s Bruce Finley who captured the story of a vote by leaders in Nederland, a short drive west of Boulder, to give their “surrounding 448-square mile watershed ‘fundamental and inalienable rights’.”
The nation’s founding documents, of course, describe those inalienable rights held by people as “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
The Nederland resolution, adopted on a 5-1 vote this month, tells the town officials to name “guardians” who can speak for nature in decision processes, much “the way court-appointed guardians speak for children, dementia-stricken elders” or others.
“For now,” Finley explained, “the focus on the non-binding resolution in Nederland (population 1,600)
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