“This legal development is as potentially transformative as British judge Lord Mansfield’s decision in 1772 that James Somerset, an enslaved African, was by law a free man who could not be owned by another person. That British case was the death knell for slavery, although it took decades for the abhorrent practice to be largely eliminated, and shadows persist to this day. Could the Te Urewera and Whanganui River laws be the death knell for the human conceit that nature is nothing but mere property, to be used and exploited for our exclusive benefit?”