“…Yet, to date, international environmental law and its scholars have not embraced the Earth system approach and are unable to respond juridically to the Earth system's unique regulatory demands [53]. Some commentators have cursorily suggested alternatives such as "Earth-centered law", "Anthropocene environmental law", "planetary boundaries law", and "Lex Anthropocenae" [54][55][56][57]. But no thorough critique or elaborate theoretical account has thus far been offered, and it remains unclear what such a new legal paradigm, its architecture, actors, focus, regulatory scope, normativity, geographical reach, ethical premise, and scientific agenda could be.…”