Rights and obligations, a pair of inseparable category, have corresponding connections. In general, enjoying certain rights must fulfill corresponding obligations, while fulfilling obligations enjoys corresponding rights. There are no rights without obligations and vice versa. Rights and obligations of man to the nature should also be understood from this perspective. We should clarify two main points: First, man is subject in the objective man-and-nature relationship, he is initiative, and therefore the mutuality of rights and obligations between the man and the nature does not exist; Secondly, it's an active-passive relationship between man and nature, that is, man must take the initiative to carry out corresponding obligations if he wants to exercise his rights to the nature. The correspondence between rights and obligations is characterized by their equality, mutual prerequisites to each other, and practicality.The specific content of rights and obligations of man to nature includes: while man enjoys the right to survive in suitable natural environment, they have the obligation to protect and improve it; while man shoulders the obligation to keep sustainable development, they enjoy the right to develop; man enjoys the right to use the natural resources, they also shoulder the obligation to protect and reasonably utilize these. All the people, no matter their region, nationality and country have equal rights to nature, and also shoulder the equal common obligation at the same time.However, due to contradictions and conflicts of interests among the people, rights and obligations of people to the nature have not been specifically implemented; they also cannot maintain general correspondence or equality, in real life. This is precisely one of the very reasons for ecological environment problems today. The conflict of man's interests is the root of the environmental issue, and the conflicts between economic interests and ecological interests lead to inequality, no correspondence of rights and obligations of man to nature. The reason why people put ecological interests out of consideration for pursuing economic interests, and only enjoy rights to the nature but shirk their obligations to protect the nature, lies in the... |