Chapter 3: System of Environmental Law
3.2. Fundamental Philosophy of the World Global Environmental Law
The unifying source of law for communist environmental law is the World Global Environmental Law. This is one of the world laws enacted by the World Commonwealth, which is a law comparable to the current United Nations Convention.
The World Global Environmental Law sets forth the key environmental principles that form the basis of the environmental codes enacted by each of the Zones. The foundation of this law is the idea of the right to coexistence. The right to coexistence means the right to the coexistence of diverse living organisms, including human beings.
In this sense, it can be paraphrased as the right to coexist with life. It is not an ethic from a religious perspective, such as the precept of killing in Buddhism, but a rationale guiding the preservation of the global environment as a place for the survival of diverse organisms, including humankind.
In other words, it is the preservation of the global environment for the coexistence of all living things. From this point of view, the term "sustainable development," which has become a key word in environmental preservation, is replaced by "sustainable coexistence."
"Sustainable development" is a slogan that implies the idea of balancing environmental sustainability and capitalist economic development. It is an eclectic philosophy that seeks to preserve the environment within the framework of a capitalist economy, and while it may have historical significance as a principle that corrects the development-oriented capitalism that leads to environmental destruction, it is clear from the composition of the term that its main focus is on "development."
herefore, environmental conservation measures that essentially hinder development, especially fundamental policies that shake the foundations of the capitalist economy, are avoided or denied, and environmental conservation measures must always remain half-baked and only haphazard measures. At the same time, there is no hiding the attempt to lure environmental conservation into a for-profit business.
The World Global Environmental Law will make a radical break with this "green capitalist" philosophy and revolutionize the fundamental principle of environmental law to guarantee the sustainability of the survival of a wide variety of living organisms.
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