Linhares, Brazil, is a world-renowned surfing destination, so when local surfers complained that the waves were changing, the city listened — and did something that has never been done before. It granted the waves legal personhood, complete with all the protections that infers.
For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood
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