Chapter 3: System of Environmental Law
3.3. Basic principles of the World Global Environmental Law
As we saw in the previous section, the fundamental principle of the World Global Environmental Law (Treaty) is "sustainable coexistence." Based on this fundamental principle, the primary objective of the World Global Environmental Law is the conservation (including restoration) of biodiversity. At the same time, this also constitutes the first basic principle of the Law.
In this case, " variety of life" in biodiversity includes human beings. Therefore, the conservation of biodiversity is not limited to the protection of non-human plants and animals, but aims to protect all species, including humans.
The second basic principle is the conservation of natural resources, especially water. Needless to say, water is an indispensable resource for all living things, and the abundance of water resources is the main reason why the earth has enabled the coexistence of diverse living things.
Sustainability-oriented communism allows for the communal and transnational management of natural resources, including water, but its legal basis is placed in environmental law before economic law. This is precisely why it is called a "sustainable planned economy.
The third basic principle is the prevention of anthropogenic climate change. This is currently being addressed as an international priority under the name of "global warming countermeasures," but since the capitalist system cannot legally constrain the activities of capital, the source of global warming, there is no prospect of reaching a definitive agreement internationally or domestically, and it will always remain a microcosm of lukewarm consensus. Anthropogenic climate action will be effective only in a communist system with a sustainable planned economy.
These are the three basic principles of World Global Environmental Law. While these three principles are objective principles, the principle of prudence is stated as an instrumental principle to achieve these three principles. The principle of prudence is the principle that environmentally hazardous actions must be avoided even if their environmental hazards are not scientifically proven, unless they are clearly based on unscientific grounds.
A similar principle is the precautionary principle, which requires actions to prevent the occurrence of environmentally harmful events that are scientifically predicted to a certain extent, although not 100%, whereas the principle of prudence goes further than this, requiring the selection of precautions to avoid even theoretically possible harmful environmental events.
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