Though Piece
“Climate Change Warriors Latest Weapon of Choice is Litigation.”
I too am worried about the proliferation of environmental lawsuits in the US, at least 5,000. Although, it is a growth market for environmental attorneys and fungible green funding.
Most of all, I am against small groups who think they know more than the voting public and who are on a moral crusade against democracy itself. “The Branches of government have had decades to stop destroying our climate system, now only courted-ordered mandates will stop the destruction our governments are perpetuating and increasingly supporting,” according to Julia Olson, attorney for Our Children’s Trust.
Climate Litigation: The Latest Green Effort to Overturn Democracy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greens openly admit they have given up on winning voter support for their climate agenda.
Climate Change Warriors’ Latest Weapon of Choice Is Litigation
By Jeremy Hodges, Lauren Leatherby and Kartikay Mehrotra
May 24, 2018
In the global fight against climate change, one tool is proving increasingly popular: litigation.
From California to the Philippines, activists, governments and concerned citizens are suing the biggest polluters and national governments over the effects of climate change at a break-neck pace.
“The courts are our last, best hope at this moment of irreversible harm to our planet and life on it,” said Julia Olson, an attorney for Our Children’s Trust, a legal challenge center in the U.S. that is involved in climate change litigation across 13 countries, including the U.S., Pakistan and Uganda.
The wave of activity is about channeling the fervor of a social movement to drive change via the legal system. The arguments vary based on both culture and the law. In the U.S., home to more cases than anywhere else in the world, many recent suits involve plaintiffs seeking to protect climate-change rules passed under former President Barack Obama. In Europe, it’s largely governments being hammered over pollution-reduction plans that fall short of EU targets.
“The political branches of government have had decades to stop destroying our climate system; now only court-ordered mandates will stop the destruction our governments are perpetuating, and increasingly supporting,” said Olson, whose primary dispute is on behalf of a group of American teenagers suing the federal government to end U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. Both the Obama and Trump administrations have sought to end the case and been rebuffed.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-climate-change-lawsuits/
The greens behind the climate litigation craze have no intention of letting voters get in the way of their nasty economic and political agenda.
