Assertions regarding human beings and the environment or about environmental law.

Respond to the following assertions regarding human beings and the environment or about environmental law. You can agree or disagree, in whole or in part, but please support your answer with a coherent argument, with reference to the course materials. According to Lazarus (1986), 

            The practical effect of environmental laws is to superimpose onto the existing scheme of  private property obtained in the private marketplace a new set of property rights, the         distribution of which the federal government controls. These new rights are often      indispensable to the exercise of prior traditional property rights. For example, the Clean         Water Act eliminates the right of any person to discharge any substance into waters of the    United States, regardless of impact on water quality, without a permit from the             government. (p. 676)