POPE FRANCIS calls for a legal framework to protect the environment in Laudato Si: “The establishment of a legal framework which can set clear boundaries and ensure the protection of ecosystems has become indispensible, otherwise the new power structures based on the techno-economic paradigm may overwhelm not only our politics but also freedom and justice” (LS 53).

Those who aspire to be legislators, or to implement the law of the land, would do well to consider the current legal framework that purports to protect our environment, the available environmental laws, and the disturbing environmental realities. Those who do not aspire to be politicians but aspire to live their lives in clean and healthy surroundings may consider that passivity, long-suffering and resignation amidst so much environmental degradation are attitudes that are disastrous for the environment.

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