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Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com)
EmagGeek writes A recent lawsuit against Obama alleges he has a legal duty to act against climate change, and young climate activists, including 15-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh, are taking him to task on it. CNN reports: "Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh became a climate change activist at age 6 when he saw an environmental documentary. He asked his mom to find a way for him to speak at a rally. Now 15, the long-haired, hip-hop-savvy Coloradan is one of 21 young activists joining climate scientist James Hansen in suing the Obama administration for failing to ditch fossil fuels. 'It's basically a bunch of kids saying you're not doing your job,' he told me here at the U.N. COP21 climate change summit in Paris. 'You're failing, you know. F-minus. We're holding you accountable for your lack of action.'"
I see this and his age, and I can only think, "does he realize that, while Obama can make some action, the majority of such a thing has to come from Congress?"
I can only see him as being a brat trying to make a name for himself targeting a well targeted person.
The biggest thing on his table politically about climate change recently, might have been Keystone, which he didn't let go through. Does this kid want Obama to pay out of pocket for the entire fleet of US vehicles (military to Congress critter's escort) to be electric?
I suppose he could have campaigned more for it, but if history has shown, anything he publicly wants to do gets known, he gets an exponential amount of noise back drowning out any effort.