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Is There the Threat of an Authoritarian Ecological State?

Is There the Threat of an Authoritarian Ecological State? An Authoritarian Eco Ils There the Threat of an Authoritarian Ecological State! Michael Kloepfer* Protection of the environment by the state leads to am enormous increase in the power of the modem state. Leaving aside the limits of a constitutional state there exists, especially in the case of ecological crises, the danger of the establishment of an authoritarian ecological state. This danger must be opposed by the ecological renewal of the liberal community. It is true that protection of the environment may be understood as the safeguarding of liberal preconditions and also of basic rights, as an attempt to safeguard all ecological security in the end but, nevertheless, it is obvious that freedom and protection of the environment exist in an elementary relationship of tension. A lot of economic, but also private activities (for instance leisure time), lead to ecological damage, the restriction of which by environmental law is understood as interference with the freedom of the people concerned. This tension between freedom and the protection of the environment also infiuences the question whether our free demoracy could develop into a kind of "Okodiklatu~"~. which cause damage to the environment, the permanent bringhg forward of the threshold of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Energy and Environmental Law Review Kluwer Law International

Is There the Threat of an Authoritarian Ecological State?

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Kluwer Law International
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Abstract

An Authoritarian Eco Ils There the Threat of an Authoritarian Ecological State! Michael Kloepfer* Protection of the environment by the state leads to am enormous increase in the power of the modem state. Leaving aside the limits of a constitutional state there exists, especially in the case of ecological crises, the danger of the establishment of an authoritarian ecological state. This danger must be opposed by the ecological renewal of the liberal community. It is true that protection of the environment may be understood as the safeguarding of liberal preconditions and also of basic rights, as an attempt to safeguard all ecological security in the end but, nevertheless, it is obvious that freedom and protection of the environment exist in an elementary relationship of tension. A lot of economic, but also private activities (for instance leisure time), lead to ecological damage, the restriction of which by environmental law is understood as interference with the freedom of the people concerned. This tension between freedom and the protection of the environment also infiuences the question whether our free demoracy could develop into a kind of "Okodiklatu~"~. which cause damage to the environment, the permanent bringhg forward of the threshold of

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European Energy and Environmental Law ReviewKluwer Law International

Published: Apr 1, 1994

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