Glaciers are "More-Than-Human" Beings

It's not clear what this is supposed to mean, but there's some indication that it may just be a bad way of saying that they have some degree of intrinsic value.

People in this general region of intellectual space like to express their views inaccurately, with a kind of literary inflection, so that they can suggest something cool and weird and revolutionary...but retreat to something boring and defensible when challenged. They build their views with motte-and-bailey-ing in mind. So maybe it's just that.