Passage A: Granting a river legal standing can create a procedural route for guardians to seek remedies for ecological injury. It does not mean the river literally speaks, nor does it determine the outcome of every dispute. The key questions concern who may represent the entity, what duties guardians owe, and how ecological interests interact with human claims. Passage B: A critic says that recognizing a river as a legal person would require courts to grant every requested remedy because a person always wins any case brought in that person's name. The author of Passage A would most likely answer that the critic