TRAGÉDIAS AMBIENTAIS GLOBAIS DAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS E DA POSSIBILIDADE DE UM ÓRGÃO LEGISLADOR INTERNACIONAL

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the impact that environmental tragedies have been causing in the world and how an international legislative body could help in the management of environmental laws and reduce the impact. The consequences of forest fires in the Amazon and Australia were investigated, as well as the hypotheses of how it would be possible to reduce such environmental damage through public awareness policies and stricter inspection measures. The methodology adopted for this study was bibliographic research, based on scientific articles, official UN documents, doctrinal understandings and analysis of constitutional and infra-constitutional legislation, using the deductive method. With the study it was possible to verify that there is urgency in inspection regarding environmental crimes, and that environmental law must be applied to treat environmental risks more rigorously, with due punishment, and also to bring greater firmness when dealing with environmental damage already caused, bringing greater penalties as a way of discouraging those who cause environmental damage. We hypothesize the use of the precautionary principle to guide environmental law in this need, a principle that deals with the adoption of measures aimed at protecting the environment, not only dealing with environmental disasters that have already occurred, but also with possible disasters that may happen in the future. This principle, together with social awareness, is crucial to avoid environmental disasters as much as possible, as a way to ensure the survival not only of the current generation, but of the people who are yet to come.