Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com)

"America's children have officially won the right to sue their government over global warming," reports Motherboard. An anonymous reader quotes their article: Thursday, a lawsuit filed by 21 youth plaintiffs was ruled valid by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene, Oregon. A group of citizens, whose ages range from nine to twenty, charged President Obama, the fossil fuel industry, and other federal agencies with violating their constitutional rights by declining to take action against climate change. "Federal courts too often have been cautious and overly deferential in the arena of environmental law, and the world has suffered for it," wrote Judge Aiken in her ruling. [PDF]
Several groups -- including the U.S. government and the American Petroleum Institute -- had asked the judge to throw out the case, but the judge ruled instead that climate change would "threaten plaintiffs' fundamental constitutional rights to life and liberty," calling man-made climate change an "undisputed" fact. In a related story, Slashdot reader devinp shares a new study which suggests "Global changes in temperature due to human-induced climate change have already impacted every aspect of life on Earth from genes to entire ecosystems, with increasingly unpredictable consequences for humans."

Comments

Re:Constitutional rights

[phantomfive]

.....rights to life and liberty
Those are what the judge was referring to.

Re:Cure now, Gym later

[whoever57]

And furthermore, the problem stems mostly with developing nations [wordpress.com] and not the industrialized ones.

How about a graph that shows CO2 emission per person, instead of one that ignored the fact that there are about 4x the number of people in China than the USA?

Also, how about acknowledging that China is already ahead of the USA in investment in renewable energy sources?

So, no the problem isn't actually developing nations, it's the USA. The USA is being left behind and the economy is likely to suffer long term.

Civil suits

[Okian Warrior]

Are you referring to Trump's 100+ civil suits currently pending?

And are those 100+ civil suits against him personally, or against various companies?

Is he innocent until proven guilty? Or are we just assuming here...

Are civil suits the same as felonies? I seem to remember another candidate playing hopscotch with several felonies.

Are civil suits of the same order as rape? I seem to remember another candidate...

Eleven states sued Barak Obama over a single action, 25 states sued him over another, almost triggering a constitutional convention. There's a long line of civil and federal suits as well, not to mention the numerous lawsuits filed against Hillary Clinton, for example from Benghazi family members.

Oh hell, of course. Now I see.

Everything about him is awful in every possible way, but one of the Clintons was never indicted.

Re:Carbon dioxide makes food plants more efficient

[Gussington]

Food plants are now 15% more efficient than 30 years ago. Fewer hungry people! Widely known fact. Search youtube for "earth greening".

Food has never been a production issue, it has always been a distribution issue.