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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."
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."
If you're not a "believer" in AGW, then you probably aren't a "believer" in gravity or evolution...or even science.
Tell me something, is it more important to you that I "believe" in AGW as you do or more important that I reduce my CO2 output as you (presumably) do? Think real hard about that.
You tell me I have to do X because it will slow the rise of the oceans, and I'll tell you I don't care because I don't live near any coasts. You tell me to do X to save the polar bears, and I'll tell you I think they are vile creatures that eat cute little baby seals. You tell me to do X because it saves me money, now I'm listening and I don't give a fuck about any baby seals.
If you lobby the government for a new law to make Y required, then I will likely fight you on it if only because I don't like being told what to do. If you convince me that doing Y will make my life better, then not only will I do it I will also give you some of my money so that I can.
Like I said in my other post, I'll play along with your AGW "science", just don't push me too far. You want science? Here's some science. Wind and solar produce electricity at twice the cost of coal and nuclear. Nuclear power produces electricity with a smaller carbon footprint than wind or solar. I want cheap electricity and you want a small carbon footprint. If you cannot see that we both win with nuclear power then we have a problem. If we can agree on nuclear power then we don't have a problem.
Question: You know that not everyone believes as you do, right?
Wrong answer: I'll make them believe.
Right answer: My beliefs do not require them to.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
That's a fascinating reading of Trump's record-setting largest-loser-of-the-popular-vote-to-ever-win-the-electoral-college victory.
.08% of the populace decided to vote for him in 2 states that mattered. Those particular people didn't vote for him for a single one of those reasons you listed. They voted for him because globalization has destroyed their lives, and they were unable to adapt. Even though NAFTA didn't take their jobs, it was a good scapegoat for the ignorant.
.08% of those dems shifted in just the right place for a man to win with the largest negative popular vote margin in history.
Frankly, I think you're just a fucking idiot.
Trump won because
If you aren't in one of the states that formed the upset, or the collapse of Hillary's so-called wall of blue, then you didn't do shit to elect that man. You did about as much as you did to elect Romney, and McCain before him. The same group of ignorant asshats vote red reliably every single time. It's the democratic vote that fluctuates. This time
This election isn't some kind of affirmation of the legitimacy of your stupid views. The people didn't speak. You didn't speak. Get the fuck over yourself.