They just won’t give up. They also won’t make their own lives carbon neutral, but, that’s something they want the government to force on Other People
Kids Who Sued America Over Climate Change Aren’t Done Yet
In 2015, nearly two dozen American youth sued the federal government, alleging that the United States violated their constitutional rights by facilitating the burning of fossil fuels and allowing greenhouse gas emissions to rise to dangerous levels. Their case, known as Juliana v. U.S., was dismissed in federal courts, but inspired dozens of youth climate lawsuits including successful climate cases in Montana and Hawai?i.
Now, 15 of those same Juliana plaintiffs, including four Indigenous plaintiffs, are taking their case internationally in the hopes that the global community will pressure the U.S. government to act.
Last month, they filed a petition at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a seven-member commission that for decades has evaluated human rights violations across 35 countries in the Americas. Kelly Matheson, an attorney at Our Children’s Trust who worked on the petition, said the case is about the “U.S. government’s unrelenting perpetuation of a fossil fuel energy system despite knowing for over 50 years that the emission of fossil fuels was catastrophic for human rights.”
The plaintiffs include Jaime Butler, who was forced to move off the Navajo Nation’s reservation in 2011 due to drought and water scarcity, and in 2014 had to evacuate her home in Flagstaff, Arizona, to escape the Oak Creek Canyon wildfire.
Droughts happen. That fire was human caused, most likely arson.
Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate change litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said it can sometimes take a decade for the commission to issue rulings. However, she said the case is still significant because the commission is the only international forum that is available to challenge the U.S. on its climate policies. “It’s another way for this to be part of the discourse and to show that something is being done about it and there is accountability, even though it does take a while,” she said.
See, Warmists cannot get people to fully agree with their policies beyond theory, so, they try and use the courts now to force compliance. Even in very Warmist states like Oregon and Washington they are having lots of pushback to climate (scam) laws, rules, and regs. Same in California and NY. Why can’t all these cultists just go live their own lives carbon neutral and leave everyone else alone?
A favorable ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights would set a precedent from Canada to Patagonia, Matheson said, and add to a growing consensus in international courts that countries have a legal obligation to fight the climate crisis.
“Do we understand that the Trump administration won’t take that seriously? Yes. Do we understand that the Trump administration won’t abide by the recommendations or the authoritative decisions of these bodies? Yes, but the next administration might,” she said.
Interestingly, most of the big shots who would implement any laws, rules, and regulations would themselves be complete climahypocrites in their own lives. Go figure.
They cannot convince the population of the world to go along with them. They cannot convince legislatures and governments to go along with them. But there is always the possibility to convince a single ideologically aligned “judge” to go along with them. Democracies and constitutions are too hard to bend to their purpose. Only a tyrant in a black robe can rule by decree.
Teach should stop call the climate lobby “hypocrites”. The climate lobby is all about the money and on that point, they are all in and their language matches their actions perfectly. The point of climate policy is to loot the productive sectors of civilization so that the unproductive sectors can live like royalty. Not even the people with climate degrees, but the people with political science degrees, law degrees and public policy degrees.
Most youts and most Americans are satisfied with the 50,% per person carbon reduction that we have done in just the last 20 years
Mr Teach thank you for giving up those cherished warm Ted incandescent lights, going through the mercury poisoning fear mongering and are finally able to enjoy todays LED lights using 80% less electricity. How do you feel about that progress and energy savings we have all accomplished so far?