Abstract

Living on the eastern seaboard of a vast and sparsely populated continent replete with natural resources, it is unlikely that the draughtsmen of the Constitution of the United States of America gave any thought to environmental constraints which might prejudice the enjoyment of the rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. It was the familiar Old World threats corrupt jurists, dogmatic clerics, autocratic kings to these human rights which they were most anxious to address. When, nearly two hundred years later, the United Nations declared, among other things:

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