Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming

hightower_40 writes to mention that a small Alaskan village has sued two dozen oil, power, and coal companies, blaming them for contributing to global warming. "Sea ice traditionally protected the community, whose economy is based in part on salmon fishing plus subsistence hunting of whale, seal, walrus, and caribou. But sea ice that forms later and melts sooner because of higher temperatures has left the community unprotected from fall and winter storm waves and surges that lash coastal areas."

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Re:It's not "mis-targetted"

[andy314159pi]

I'd have a lot more sympathy if these people hadn't been taking money from the oil companies for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund [wikipedia.org]

As it is, they have a 40 billion+ fund for things like this. Give back the money you so greedily took when you didn't care about the consequences, or use the money you've saved for this purpose, but don't expect us (and it WILL be us, the customer who gets the cost passed to them) to pay you off again.

We are living and walking around on soil that we took from Native people by force.

Why don't you develop some respect.