Natural Law/ Human Law

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dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T02:36:33Zen
dc.date.available2014-01-23T02:36:33Zen
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractThis commentary is a response to Cormac Cullinan s 2008 article in Orion. In the article, Cullinan writes, _In the eyes of American law today, most of the community of life on Earth remains mere property, natural «resources to be exploited, bought and sold just as slaves were. In human law, precedence is regarded as extremely important. If precedence applied to natural law in the same manner as human law, then natural law, which is at least 4.5 billion years old, would carry more weight than human law. There are also severe penalties for violating natural law, even if they are not always apparent in times spans of interest to individual humans. However, no human economy could possibly survive if the biospheric life support system ceases to maintain conditions favorable for human health. Therefore, humankind needs to better understand nature at all levels of biological organization before any attempt is made to protect nature with human laws.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25107en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.johncairns.net/Commentaries/naturallaw.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectnatural lawen
dc.subjecthuman lawen
dc.subjectcarrying capacityen
dc.subjectresource depletionen
dc.titleNatural Law/ Human Lawen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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