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Spheres of Influence
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Is Environmental Health a Basic Human Right? David A. Taylor Abstract Who truly owns natural resources such as the water, the air, and the forests? In some areas, courts are ruling that such resources are the property of the people, while others areas bow to free market forces. As the world's population grows greater, resources grow scarcer, and the link between civil instability and environmental degradation becomes clearer, deciding who owns our planet will become less a theoretical exercise to be pondered at leisure than a determination that is deferred at the peril of our survival. The full version of this article is available for free in HTML or PDF formats. |
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