ABSTRACT
How much environmental ethics should we write into law? Care for our environment is something on which we must gain minimal consensus, but also something that will require considerable enforcement. Not all duties are matters of justice, but many are. If you doubt that, try stealing. Or killing. Or raping. Or dumping hazardous wastes (maybe a kind of killing, stealing, or raping). Our inquiry is how far such enforcement is and ought to be so, how far environmental ethics is, in this larger sense, environmental justice.
