Bill Maher: The Mountain & The Maori

Bill Maher taking the mickey about New Zealand giving Mt Taranaki personhood

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Professor Jerry Coyne: New Zealand volcano deemed to have the status of personhood

New Zealand is the first country in the world to give natural geographic features the status of personhood, with all the rights of a human being. It was first done to Te Urewera, a remote area of the North Island, then to the North Island’s Whanganui River. Now CNN and BreakingViews (headlines below) report that personhood has been tranted to a third feature, the volcano Mount Taranaki, also on the North Island, and located here: