Is There a Right to Protection Against Environmental Existential Threats?

Q2 Social Sciences

AMA journal of ethics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1001/amajethics.2025.582

Amber R Comer

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Abstract

Despite broad awareness of impending existential threats to humanity, protections from these threats are not yet widely recognized as human rights. This article distinguishes human rights from legal rights, considers possible domestic and international legal approaches to rights-based protection from environmental existential threats, and offers recommendations about how to motivate such protections.

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保护环境免受生存威胁的权利存在吗？

尽管人们广泛意识到人类面临的迫在眉睫的生存威胁，但对这些威胁的保护尚未被广泛认为是一项人权。本文将人权与法律权利区分开来，考虑可能的国内和国际法律途径，以基于权利的保护免受环境生存威胁，并就如何激励这种保护提出建议。

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AMA journal of ethics Social Sciences-Health (social science)

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

0.00%

发文量

146

期刊介绍： The AMA Journal of Ethics exists to help medical students, physicians and all health care professionals navigate ethical decisions in service to patients and society. The journal publishes cases and expert commentary, medical education articles, policy discussions, peer-reviewed articles for journal-based and audio CME, visuals, and more. Since its inception as an editorially-independent journal, we promote ethics inquiry as a public good.