Publication Date
2015
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Laws of nature, Environmental policies, Models of nature, Right to human survival, Duty to promote natural systems
Abstract
A truly workable environmental strategy would start by being grounded in better, more realistic and empirically accurate models of how nature works, how humans behave, and humankind's relationship to nature. Such an environmental policy would realize that the gardener and the garden are not separate, but one. And this environmental policy would embrace two correlative legal norms: (1) we should recognize a positive right, held by both humans and their natural surroundings, to environmental conditions that may sustain human survivability'; and (2) we should impose an affirmative duty on humans to promote and support natural systems.
Rights Holder
Jan G. Laitos, Juliana E. Okulski
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
7 pgs
File Size
831 KB
Publication Statement
Originally published as Jan G. Laitos & Juliana E. Okulski, The Gardener and the Sick Garden: How Not to Address the Planet's Environmental Issues, 45 ENVTL. L. REP. News & Analysis 10391 (2015).
Several of the ideas presented in this Dialogue are considered, in a much expanded version, in the authors' book: Why Environmental Policies Fail (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017).
Copyright is held by the authors. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Publication Title
Environmental Law Reporter - News & Analysis
Volume
45
First Page
10391
Last Page
10397
Recommended Citation
Jan G. Laitos & Juliana E. Okulski, The Gardener and the Sick Garden: How Not to Address the Planet's Environmental Issues, 45 ENVTL. L. REP. News & Analysis 10391 (2015).