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Teens Sue Government for Failing to Address Climate Change for Future Generations
2/25/15
Authors: Cole Mellino | EcoWatch | News Report
Many young people feel they have too much at stake to wait for our leaders to get their act together and take meaningful action on climate change. In the words of one young climate activist, Alec Loorz, we need to demand our political leaders govern as if our future matters. With their future at stake, many youth have taken their case to the courts in the hopes that the judiciary will require the legislature to take action.
We are all in imminent danger, Loorz, who founded the nonprofit Kids vs. Global Warming,told Outside Magazine. Scientists have said we have 10 years to make changes if we want to stabilize the climate by 2100and that was back in 2005 We care more about money and power than we do about future generations. The judicial system is the only branch of government not bought out by corporate interests.
On Bill Moyers show last month, Mary Christina Wood, law professor at the University of Oregon and author of Natures Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age, explains what is being called the Childrens Climate Crusade.
https://vimeo.com/115286097
What exactly are these young people asking for? Every suit and every administrative petition filed in every state in the country and against the federal government asks for the same relief, Wood says. And that is for the government to bring down carbon emissions in compliance with what scientists say is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The young plaintiffs simply want the courts to require the legislatures and the agencies to do their job in figuring out how to lower carbon emissions, says Wood. Do these litigants have any legal grounds to stand on, though?
Turns out, yes. You find it in case law going back to the beginning years of this country, says Wood. The U.S. Supreme Court has announced the Public Trust Doctrine in multiple cases over the years and its in every state jurisprudence as well.
...Oregons and Massachusetts cases are moving forward. Legal arguments began last month in Oregons case and will culminate in a court hearing before Judge Rasmussen once again on March 13.
...Kelsey Juliana, one of the young plaintiffs in the Oregon case, said, As a youth, and therefore someone on the front lines of climate change chaos, I have everything to gain from taking action and everything to lose from not....
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/02/25/teens-sue-government-failing-address-climate-change-future-generations/
2/25/15
Authors: Cole Mellino | EcoWatch | News Report
Many young people feel they have too much at stake to wait for our leaders to get their act together and take meaningful action on climate change. In the words of one young climate activist, Alec Loorz, we need to demand our political leaders govern as if our future matters. With their future at stake, many youth have taken their case to the courts in the hopes that the judiciary will require the legislature to take action.
We are all in imminent danger, Loorz, who founded the nonprofit Kids vs. Global Warming,told Outside Magazine. Scientists have said we have 10 years to make changes if we want to stabilize the climate by 2100and that was back in 2005 We care more about money and power than we do about future generations. The judicial system is the only branch of government not bought out by corporate interests.
On Bill Moyers show last month, Mary Christina Wood, law professor at the University of Oregon and author of Natures Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age, explains what is being called the Childrens Climate Crusade.
https://vimeo.com/115286097
What exactly are these young people asking for? Every suit and every administrative petition filed in every state in the country and against the federal government asks for the same relief, Wood says. And that is for the government to bring down carbon emissions in compliance with what scientists say is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The young plaintiffs simply want the courts to require the legislatures and the agencies to do their job in figuring out how to lower carbon emissions, says Wood. Do these litigants have any legal grounds to stand on, though?
Turns out, yes. You find it in case law going back to the beginning years of this country, says Wood. The U.S. Supreme Court has announced the Public Trust Doctrine in multiple cases over the years and its in every state jurisprudence as well.
...Oregons and Massachusetts cases are moving forward. Legal arguments began last month in Oregons case and will culminate in a court hearing before Judge Rasmussen once again on March 13.
...Kelsey Juliana, one of the young plaintiffs in the Oregon case, said, As a youth, and therefore someone on the front lines of climate change chaos, I have everything to gain from taking action and everything to lose from not....
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/02/25/teens-sue-government-failing-address-climate-change-future-generations/
Xposted in GD....don't know what I was thinking.
So happy teens are bringing attention to our crisis. They don't stand a chance of winning, but kudos to them, their parents, and their lawyers willing to take on the big bad powerful govt of the corporations, for the corporations, by the corporations!
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Teens Sue Government for Failing to Address Climate Change for Future Generations (Original Post)
RiverLover
Feb 2015
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niyad
(113,552 posts)1. k and r
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)2. Kickin'
marym625
(17,997 posts)3. YAY KIDS!
Wonderful stuff! I love it!
Why the hell fo these kids have to protect themselves? Obviously, we're not protecting them because of money. Despicable.