Hooray, you won! After a lifetime of being able to travel around using fossil fuels, living the high life, you have now created a situation where the Swiss government will have to Do Something that will increase the cost of living, increase taxation, and reduce freedom and life choices. Kudos!
Swiss women win landmark climate case at Europe top human rights court
Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change, in a decision that will set a precedent for future climate lawsuits.
The European Court of Human Rights’s ruling, in favour of the more than 2,000 Swiss women who brought the case, is expected to resonate in court decisions across Europe and beyond, and to embolden more communities to bring climate cases against governments.
The Swiss women, known as KlimaSeniorinnen and aged over 64, said their government’s climate inaction put them at risk of dying during heatwaves. They argued their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to such climate change impacts.
How many of them have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral? How many care that this will be foist upon the younger generations? Also, it’s rather insane that a court that is not in Switzerland can dictate how a sovereign nation acts. But, hey, they were warned that the creation of the EU would end up this way.
But in a sign of the complexities of the growing wave of climate litigation, the court (ECtHR) rejected two other climate-related cases on procedural grounds. One of these was brought by a group of six Portuguese young people against 32 European governments and another by a former mayor of a low-lying French coastal town.
Do the kiddies and mayor know they can actually practice what they preach and attempt to convince others to do the same?
The obvious question is: how will that court decision affect what the Swiss government actually does? Can an European Union court decision compel national legislation?
Seems to me that they are already at risk of dying during heat waves. This has been an annual issue throughout Europe for decades. Culturally, they eschew using air conditioning and make fun of Americans for “going from our refrigerated cars into our refrigerated homes”, and they can get away with that due to their normally mild climate. But Europe does have occasional heat waves. It seems to me that any rational person who feared death by heat should invest in a window AC unit… just like all the other people on the planet do who have normally hot summers. I have experienced summers of 130-140 degrees. One would think that such places are uninhabitable, but they are not. People live there year round. Meanwhile, Swiss old ladies complain that it gets to 80 degrees. This may just be an extension of the stereotypical problem with old women that they are never satisfied with teh temperatures indoors and are constantly adjusting the thermostat.
“How many of them have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral?” -William Teach
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
You’re Upton Sinclair quote describes you to a tee. It amuses the rest of us how you gonna be aware of such a quote and be of the mental capacity that you currently are. You have aged, you have grown old, but you have never become wise.
“You’re (sic) Upton Sinclair quote describes you to a tee.” -L.G.Brandon!, L.G.Brandon!
How so?
You’re kidding, right?
You should know by now that we have no sense of humor.
We have noticed that con-menters here often type something but retreat when challenged.
So… “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
How does that fit me to a tittle? What does my salary depend on? Certainly not selling gasoline powered autos.
I don’t expect an answer, and will ignore your further bluster.
they have confused hot flashes with global worming.