🌳 The Forest Knows What We Forgot

About this episode

The episode explores the implications of granting legal standing to fungal networks that exhibit decision-making capabilities.

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/196145715 If a fungal network is demonstrably making decisions — distributing resources, recognizing kin, warning communities of danger, managing ecosystem resilience across centuries — does that network deserve legal standing? We already grant legal personhood to corporations, entities with no biological processes whatsoever, allowing them to sue for damages and protect their interests in court. What is the legal ...

People in this episode

Host: SC Zoomers

Topics covered

• fungal networks
• legal personhood
• ecosystem resilience
• resource distribution
• environmental ethics

Keywords

• fungal networks
• legal standing
• ecosystem
• resource management
• environmental law

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Organizations: Heliox

Books & works: The Forest Knows What We Forgot

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