You Cannot Have the Cake and Eat It – How to Reconcile Liberal Fundamental Rights with Answers to the Climate Crisis

IF 0.4 Q3 LAW
Eva Julia Lohse, María Valeria Berros
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Abstract Our Western-style constitutional systems are not only built on 16th to 18th century social contract theory, but also mainly on a liberal understanding of individual human rights. They are an element of constitutions and international treaties and are increasingly used as a basis for claims of individuals against states for more action to tackle the climate change crisis. However, a human right to a sustainable climate meets plenty of challenges if understood as a classic human right. The question is whether human rights offer a solution to legal questions of the climate crisis by empowering people to demand specific measures from states. The authors demonstrate how the search for solutions has altered the understanding of human rights globally and will continue to do so. It sheds a light on whether the premises on the relationship between state and individual and burdens on individual freedom can still be answered by paradigms from social contract theories and whether the social contract needs to be enlarged by including non-human actors (like eco-systems) or future generations.
鱼与熊掌不可兼得——如何调和自由主义基本权利与应对气候危机
我们的西方宪政制度不仅建立在16至18世纪的社会契约理论之上,而且主要建立在对个人人权的自由主义理解之上。它们是宪法和国际条约的组成部分,越来越多地被用作个人要求国家采取更多行动应对气候变化危机的依据。然而,如果将享有可持续气候的人权理解为一项经典人权,就会遇到许多挑战。问题在于,人权是否能通过赋予人们要求各国采取具体措施的权利,为气候危机的法律问题提供解决方案。作者展示了寻求解决办法如何改变了全球对人权的理解,并将继续这样做。它揭示了关于国家与个人的关系以及对个人自由的负担的前提是否仍然可以通过社会契约理论的范式来回答,以及社会契约是否需要通过包括非人类行为者(如生态系统)或后代来扩大。
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