湖に人権を付与？地球環境を救う画期的な方法とは？

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FactsVerse presents, people are using a
00:03 自然に関する(wildは掛詞です)新しい方法で地球を救おうとしている
wild new way to save the planets that's
00:06 それは政治的な混乱を生み出している
drawing political backlash
00:08 どうして政治家が問題を抱えるのか
why would politicians have a problem
00:10 地球を救う問題の話なのに
with us saving the planet well we'll
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pollution is literally destroying our
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planet plastic and other dangerous
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pollutants are destroying our oceans
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lakes and the earth itself Lake Erie is
00:31 エリー湖も例外ではありません。何年もこのような環境問題に見舞われた後、
no exception after years of dealing with
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these environmental hazards a group of
00:36 オハイオ州トレドのグループはバーに集まり
people from Toledo Ohio gathered at a
00:39 その立派な湖を綺麗にするための議論をしていました。
bar to discuss cleaning up the Great
00:40 彼らに予定された計画はありませんでしたが、
Lake they didn't have a blueprint to
00:43 歴史を揺るがす方法を生み出したのです。
follow but they did hatch a
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history-making scheme these people are
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using a "wild" new way to save the planet
00:49 それは明らかに政治家が気に入るものではなかったのです。
and apparently the politicians don't
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like it all that much since the late 90s
00:54 エリー湖はどんどん汚染されていった
lake erie has become more and more
00:55                 原因は
polluted and the cause of the pollution
00:57 農地の流出(off外れてrun動いていくこと)によって
is the farmland runoff that sends
01:00 化学物質が湖に流れ込んでいることだった。それにより
chemicals into the lake which has caused
01:02 有毒な藻の増殖を起こしていた。
toxic algae blooms these pockets of
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organisms form excess nutrients such as
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phosphate and nitrogen it gets dumped
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into the water over time this has had a
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catastrophic effect on the environment
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this pollution is killing the living
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creatures in the Great Lakes as the
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microbes in the algae bloom die they
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suck up all the oxygen in the water and
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this kills off the creatures that need
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oxygen in the water to survive the
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oxygen depleted areas of the lake are
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known as dead zones the algae blooms
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have been a problem in Toledo Ohio for
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years but in 2014 the situation got even
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worse it was then that the city
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announced a three-day tap water ban
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because the toxicity was contaminating
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the drinking water this contamination
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left 110 people sick and over a
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half-million were left without safe
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drinking water considering over 11
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million people depend on Lake Erie for
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their drinking water something had to be
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done about these toxic blooms when
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people reached out to public officials
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about the issues with the water they
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discovered nobody was taking action
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since their worries were not taken
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seriously
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a group of local activists
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at a local bar to hash out their
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concerns and after several hours and
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several cases of beer they discovered an
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out-of-the-box solution to their problem
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the woman leading the fight is Marky
02:24
Miller the group is called to lead ins
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for safe water Marky said for three days
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in 2014 we lost access to our drinking
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water and we didn't see any action being
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taken because of it we decided to do
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something for ourselves they decided to
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have Lake Erie be recognized as a legal
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person which marked the first case of
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rights of nature this wasn't the first
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time it was done though other countries
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have done things like this in the past
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the rights of nature movement has
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sprouted up all over the world the goal
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is to balance what is good for humans
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with what is good for the planet
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Lake Erie has joined a long list of
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Natural Resources looking for human
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level freedoms in 2008 Ecuador used this
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green legislation by recognizing the
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rights of Mother Nature in the
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Constitution it passed with a 64% vote
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which made it the first country to take
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this step in 2014 New Zealand followed
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suit when they declared that the Taylor
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aware a forest should have personhood in
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India in 2017 the same rights were given
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to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers the
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rivers were considered legal and living
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entities that had the status of a legal
03:33
person unfortunately this didn't last
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after just four months the decision was
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overturned by the High Court too recent
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that it just wasn't practical On
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February 26th 2019 people filled the
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voting booths to decide the legality of
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Lake Erie they were hoping to make it a
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legal person to make a change the bill
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passed was 61 percent of the votes this
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could not have happened at a better time
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either since the flood levels for the
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Great Lake was at an all-time high it
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just made a more important that they
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protected the water in the lake with the
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vote passed Markey made a statement she
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said beginning today the people of
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Toledo and our allies are ushering in a
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new era of environmental rights
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unfortunately not everybody's on board
04:17
with this many farmers protested the new
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bill some are filing lawsuits saying
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that the new law has put a financial
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strain on far
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and it's affecting their livelihoods
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with all these lawsuits pending it's
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unknown whether the lake of Erie Bill of
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Rights is going to remain intact or not
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only time will tell
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Markey and her group say that they feel
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for the farmers but they have to think
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more about all the citizens of Toledo
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and their access to safe drinking water
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what do you think should a lake be
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considered a human being for legal
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reasons tell us in the comments below
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