This problem uncovers a contradiction or radical incompatibility between natural systems that constitute the infrastructure of the planetary life infrastructure, and the social systems in which the above-mentioned human activity is divided into. This human activity can be considered the socioeconomic and legal-politic "superstructure-, of human societies.
Today, mankind is facing a double dilemma:.
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To stop the process of environmental deterioration and reverse it, if possible.
To adapt a way to the new realities of the vital ecosystem, of which man is now aware.
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This new view of the world as a whole, as a holistic system implies the existence of a new Legal Object, of which we had partial glimpses, but it had never been conceived as such. It is the Biosphere, or global Ecosystem, which we call Environment, to give it a human connotation. This new legal object, with a completely different nature has specific characteristics that require a new special form of law capable of considering and regulating it. This special kind of law is what we call "Environmental Law."".
B) Characteristics of Environmental Law.
Environmental law has several characteristics, which make it different from other legal systems:.
1. Global Object: While other legal objects, which are the basis of the "branches- of law: Criminal, Commercial, Civil etc., have a sectorial object, environmental law has a global object that includes all the branches into which we divide law as methodology.
2. Planetary territorial domain: While national law has a territorial domain limited to the national territory of the states, environmental law's territorial domain is the whole biosphere.
3. Specific and unique: While the active subjects of international law are the states, the only one unique subject of environmental law is Mankind, even without considering time, because it includes its past, present and future historical dimensions.