RT Article
T1 Rights and Responsibilities on the Home Planet
JF Zygon
VO 28
IS 4
SP 425
OP 439
A1 Rolston, Holmes 1932-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1993
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827950218
AB Abstract. Earth is the home planet, right for life. But rights, a notable political category, is, unfortunately, a biologically awkward word. Humans, nonetheless, have rights to a natural environment with integrity. Humans have responsibilities to respect values in fauna and flora. Appropriate survival units include species populations and ecosystems. Increasingly the ultimate survival unit isglobal; and humans have a responsibility to the planet Earth. Human political systems are not well suited to protect life atglobal ranges. National boundaries ignore important ecologicalprocesses; national policies do not favor an equitable distribution of sustainable resources. But there are signs of hope.
K1 United Nations
K1 Rights
K1 reponsibilities
K1 Natural resources
K1 national resources
K1 intrinsic values in nature
K1 Flora
K1 fauna
K1 Species
K1 endangered
K1 Ecosystems
K1 Earth
K1 Biodiversity
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01047.x