n February 2021, Alice Gorman (space archaeologist), Ceridwen Dovey (space writer), Michelle Maloney and Mari Margil (earth lawyers) and I (landscape architect) came together to write the Declaration of the Rights of the Moon. To give the Moon rights may seem a radical suggestion, but it was clear, when talking with Michelle and Mari, that the Zeitgeist was changing in regard to the rights of nature. In 2008, Ecuador declared a new constitution to give rights to nature, and there are now 409 rights of nature initiatives globally. It is clear that the Western legal system has been largely set up to regulate the destruction of nature.
