Introduction. Three damaging ideas and a potential solution
Part I. The rights of animals. The honorary vertebrate ; 1. Breakthroughs in understanding animal minds ; Lucy ; 2. The evolution of animal welfare ; 3. Can a chimpanzee be a legal person? ; 4. The expansion of animal rights
Part II. The rights of species. A fish, a dam, and a lawsuit that changed the world ; 5. Saving endangered species: "whatever the cost" ; A dirty cop and the unicorn of the sea ; 6. Endangered species laws go global
Part III. The rights of nature: from trees to rivers and ecosystems ; Walt Disney, the Sierra Club, and the Mineral King Valley ; 7. Watershed moments: asserting the rights of American ecosystems ; 8. A river becomes a legal person ; The land was here first ; 9. Te Urewera: the ecosystem formerly known as a national park
Part IV. The rights of nature: new constitutional and legal foundations ; A river goes to court ; 10. Pachamama and Ecuador's pioneering consitution ; An unlikely president and champion for nature's rights ; 11. Bolivia and the rights of Mother Earth ; A voice for the Great Barrier Reef ; 12. Global game changers
Conclusion. Right planet, rights time.