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ection of our environment has been one of the most pressing
cade. The past several years have seen unprecedented global
an's interaction with nature. And yet, since the industrial
n has been interacting with nature on a global scale. While it
W the right to utilize national resources is fundamental, norms
evolve. The right to wage war, for example, is now proscribed by
s customary international law. As humankind now continues to
place in the web of life, we realize that our previous standards of
room for progress.
ger explores accepted and emerging international law and inter-
evidence as to how close the international community is to a
'nvironmental obligations and rights. Due to the immense breadth
is study will limit itself primarily to parallels drawn from well-
governing transboundary watercourses. It is advanced in this
regimes will provide much' of the support for future application
s of inter-generational equity on a more comprehensive, if not yet
states have begun to examine the truly global inter-connected-
l resources. This paper interprets this as a gradual, yet radical,
nduct of states toward a regime of strict liability for those who
tially degrade even their own natural resources. In addition, this
that the Philippines has accepted much of these peremptory norms
and intergenerational equity. A universal consensus, however,
ie. Further study on the extent of a sovereign's obligations to
ultimately affected by its acts will prove vital to humankind as we
and starts toward a sustainable future.
INTRODUCTION
ble of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human
umankind, both creature and moulder of his environment, which
stenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral,
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