Can Democracy Include a World Beyond Humans?

It's also a fun coincidence that none of the entities which this article demands legal personhood for would be able to articulate its own needs or interests directly - all of them would be represented in courts or parliaments by humans. That would seem like a recipe for conflicts of interest and power accumulation.

That being said, if we really cannot see an object as anything else than either a person or a resource to be exploited, then I guess personhood is the best option.

The individual ego of carbon based life are not easy to reach consensus. That caused a lot of (un)necessary conflicts. There's no such problem in a higher level civilization if the "ego" is quite different one then our "ego" from nature evolution of our current environment, then the democracy is not necessary or, maybe it's already implicitly exist.

This is a speculation on "Beyond Humans" upwards

>A system of laws and protections developed by and for humans can never fully incorporate the needs and desires of nonhumans.

Not only is this incorrect, but it nullifies the whole proposition of the article if it is.