The article was written as a sequel to Ludwik Tomiałojcio’s article, „Give Environmental Protection High Priority”. Radecki agrees with Tomiałojcio’s opinion that the disastrous environmental legislation passed in December 2000 accounts for the poor state of nature-protection in Poland. The legislation was formulated to take into account the constitutional caveats on the protection of the property rights of the individual. This means that individual property rights count more than the environmental benefits enjoyed by the rest of the society. The author reiterates the words of Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski, the founder of environmental protection: „Environmental protection takes precedence over the will of the owner of enlisted land or property”. If one cannot accept this, one is not capable of understanding principles of environmental protection.