So, if you read my post about some of the newly appointed "Juridical Persons", you'll know that the Yumana River in India is now considered "a person" but is also declared dead by environmental groups due to extreme pollution. Does that mean that murder has been committed?
The question was raised in an interesting article I read while researching the topic of juridical persons. As written in online version of
The Guardian, the fact that it is people who are responsible for the blatant polluting of the Yumana, whether they be the individuals who dump their garbage, the people who own the factories that dump their toxic waste, or the people in the government who do nothing to deter or prevent those who do pollute.
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| photo courtesy of David Gilkey/NPR |
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| photo courtesy of Om Prakash Singh |
As the preceding photos show, this horrific abuse of the river occurs constantly, mostly in Delhi. Though only 4.96 % of the 1376 km long river actually flows within the borders of the city itself, the city accounts for 80% of the pollutants, including about 1 billion litres of raw sewage. And that's daily! Horrors!!
So, if the river is classifies as dead because it cannot support any aquatic life, could it's death be considered as murder?
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