Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full blown campaign with a team of 50 people
Standing in the shadow of Iceland’s Snæfellsjökull, – a 700,000-year-old glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country’s population on any given day – in 2010, Angela Rawlings was struck by an unconventional thought.
“It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was president?” said Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while Māori in New Zealand were working to secure legal personhood for the Whanganui River.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/bid-to-secure-spot-for-glacier-in-icelandic-presidential-race-heats-up-snfellsjokull
Author : Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent
Publish date : 2024-04-19 15:51:37
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