Plants ought to have the right to vote

Observation 1. Human rights extend beyond the humanMy opponent says that the purpose of the book is to argue that human rights apply to the environment, but not plants. But really, the environment is something that encompasses all of life, and thus, plants. The environment "encompasses all living and non-living things occuring naturally on Earth" [1], "the biotic and the abiotic" (meaning the living and the nonliving factors that affect it) [2], "the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors" [3]. Let me explain it like this:P1. The environment includes plantsP2. The environment has human rightsC1. Plants have human rightsNow, you claim that the authors are just claiming what the wish the rights were; that's not true. Baxi is explicitly arguing for the recognition of human rights for the environment (and all of its components), and if we don't give rights to the environment, we are living in an anthropocentric society, something that they claim is a net harm.Observation 2. Democracy is a human rightYou say that we shouldn't consider this observation because it came from an organisation that doesn't approve of plant rights; but how is this the case? They are for the codification of human rights and, as Baxi argues, plants have human rights to be considered. They have not released a statement concerning the rights of plants; saying that they have a negative or positive one is fallacious because then we are just putting words in their mouth. They haven't said anything, so my opponent cannot claim that they are against plant rights.I am arguing for a change in the status quo, and if the UN doesn't think that plants don't have human rights (which they do or they don't - we cannot tell), then we can still consider what they say are human rights and apply them to this change. The US government can argue that marriage is a fundamentally human right, but they can say nothing about gay marriage; does it logically follow that by citing the US government on the issue of marriage, you concede that gay marriage is bad? Of course not, because you are advocating for a change in the status quo and because they haven't released any statements about the status quo.CasesEven if my opponent's refutations hold up, there is one thing that doesn't; how they can argue that democracy is something good and we need to protect it at all costs (they even argue we need to do this for plants when we consider giving them rights), but say that applying democracy to plants is a non sequitur. They argue that giving plants the right to vote has an impact positively on the economy (they conceded this in R2), but they argue that it breaks the foundation for democracy; then they are saying that we can't talk about democracy because it's only about humans.Baxi says that we need to recognise human rights for the environment (something that you agree that they are arguing); democracy is a human right; democracy stops all of these bad things (genocide, terrorism, war) and promotes good things (the economy, as you concede). Therefore we need to prevent genocide, terrorism, war at all costs to protect people as well as plants - something that is never actually refuted by you, you just say that we can't apply human rights to these things because they are fundamentally human and it's non sequitur.Impact analysisMy opponent concedes that democracy benefits the economy (R2: "since we already know how democracy positively influences the economy"), drops my terrorism argument saying it's non sequitur when this isn't the case, and drops genocide for the same reason, we can see that my case is left intact.My opponent's arguments are refuted (that giving plants the right to vote breaks the concept of democracy, other human rights need to be considered, destroy agriculture (like stopping slavery stopped slavery)), except for the one that doesn't make any sense to me in its wording (NAP). We need to weigh the economy, stopping terrorism, and stopping genocide against the Non-Agression Principle. Obviously, the non-agression principle has no real-world impacts that are realisable, so we can only vote in affirmation.[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org...[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org...(biophysical)[3]. http://dictionary.reference.com...