The right to live without environmental pollution

By Gustavo Copelmayer

Lately I have been researching the universal right to live free from environmental pollution and I have come across interesting ideas. The right to life is above all other fundamental rights of people, hence the right to life is the basis of all jurisprudence.

Its relationship to the environment could be deemed quite obvious since the right to life includes all living beings. Given this premise, we must think about enforcing the right to live in a space without pollution.

Environmental pollution is understood to be any presence of substances or elements in the environment that are harmful to humans and ecosystems. There are different types of pollution, but they can basically be divided into: air, soil, and water pollution.

Living in pollution-free environments means human existence in an environment that is not only natural, harmonious, free of toxic substances that humans produce, but also includes physical, chemical, and biological elements that are in harmony with nature and are not harmful for the conservation of natural resources that our planet produces on its own.