The Environmental Democracy as a Political Theory for the Anthropocene

The concept of environmental democracy attempted to harmonize the concept of constitutional democracy with the knowledge of Earth system sciences and the conditions of the climate regime of the Anthropocene. The concept of environmental democracy develops the ideas that arose within the concepts of political and social ecology, the Jonas principle of responsibility, Morrison's concept of ecological democracy as the constitutive idea of ecological civilization, and Latour's concept of politics for the New Climatic Regime but takes into account also the most recent update of Planetary boundaries concept supplemented by the criteria of environmental justice and equity. The concept of environmental democracy tries to formulate principles of a political system that respects both the concepts of human rights and constitutional democracy, as well as the concept of safe and just planetary boundaries. It assumes the possibility of expanding democratic control over economic and technological power. The basis of the legitimacy of the New Climatic Regime´s political system is supposed to be the availability of the basic prerequisites of life for all.