ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains about responsibility within law and custom. The significance of aganuu and agaifanua speaks to the two frameworks of customary law that operate within Samoa. Samoans shows the biblical concepts such as heaven, hell and original sin, and with the ethic of industry. In Samoa, individuals, families or villages perceives by members to be responsible for managing their own waste. Samoa becomes an independent nation-state with the significant changes. The state becomes judge, standard-bearer and arbiter of what is good, responsible and ethical. The real evidence presented by scientists on the causal connections between rising sea levels and other climate changes and industrial pollution, Pacific countries must rally together to force those most accountable for the breakdown of nature's protective mechanisms to take responsibility for the samoan people's abuses. The author focus on the notions "climate change", "climate justice", "public good", "common good", "western law" and "indigenous custom".
