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| | Review Essay: Future Generations and International Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The book is a series of essays written by prominent philosophers and jurists, which seeks to "disseminate new insights and proposals on our responsibilities towards future generations and stimulate people everywhere to build and preserve a global neighbourhood of democracy, peace and prosperity for present and future generations (p. |
 | | In general, the book is a useful, timely and unique examination of the emerging field of intergenerational justice and international environmental law. |
 | | True, one author asks whether future generations of non-human beings should be appointed a guardian, while another highlights the importance of non-human intergenerational equity, and proposes "a group of guardians, one for each of several natural objects - for example, a legal spokesperson for marine mammals, another for Antarctic fauna... |
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