Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1990
Abstract
We read every day about the desecration of our environment and the mismanagement of our natural resources. We have always had the capacity to wreck the environment on a small or even regional scale. Centuries of irrigation without adequate drainage in ancient times converted large areas of the fertile Tigris-Euphrates valley into barren desert. What is new is that we now have the power to change our global environment irreversibly, with profoundly damaging effects on the robustness and integrity of the planet and the heritage that we pass to future generations.
Publication Citation
84 Am. J. Int'l L. 198 (1990)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Brown Weiss, Edith, "Our Rights and Obligations to Future Generations for the Environment" (1990). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1627.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1627