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PONDERING THE IDEA OF BESTOWING LEGAL PERSONHOOD ON NATURAL RESOURCES: A NEW DIMENSION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE GREAT JURISPRUDENCE AND MARXIAN AND GANDHIAN PHILOSOPHY OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION

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The entire jurisprudence of the environment and ecosystem developed by humanity to date surrounds the idea that human lives are bestowed with the duty to protect natural resources for their own benefit in the present and future. The emergence of the ‘Great Jurisprudence’ marks a drastic shift from such anthropocentric views to nature-centric studies, which involve conceiving the reality that human beings are one among many components of the existing ecosystem. It deconstructs the humane perception that humanity needs to be the guardian and ultimate owner of resources available in the ecosystem; instead, society has the right only to utilize the resources essential for them. The Great Jurisprudence conceives a more extraordinary idea of equality among the living things in the world and their access to natural resources. It establishes the novel jurisprudential analysis that the entire legal framework revolving around nature and the ecosystem's protection must be transformed to accommodate the demand to consider us, humanity, as a single contributor to it rather than the center of focus.

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