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http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/11/opinions/sutter-climate-kids-update/?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion(CNN)It's a case an attorney called "one of the most significant in our nation's history."
And, thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge pushed it much-much closer to trial.
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wenty-one young people (ages 8 to 19) are suing President Barack Obama and the federal government over making a mess of the planet for future generations.
It's the climate version of David v. Goliath.
A bunch of kids suing the big-bad feds.
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The climate kids' argument is multifaceted and nuanced, bringing in concepts of public trust doctrine as well as constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. But one of the oh-wow points they're making is this: Young people and unborn generations are being discriminated against when it comes to the U.S. propagation of climate change.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)That's like the anti-choicers saying "unborn child". Someone that does exist isn't having their rights taken away.
My point: there's a better way to go about this.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)If an unborn generation wants to sue, they should have to file a lawsuit themselves.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)SoLeftIAmRight
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Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)9 months - many surrounded by fluid tainted with many of hundreds of chemicals
half of the people are below average
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Unborn generations are going to exist someday; a foetus that is aborted is never going to be a child.
If you visualise the universe as four-dimensional, unborn generations exist at certain points in space-time, while the person an aborted foetus "would" (a word that is much more complicated than it sounds) have become does not.
A better analogy might be foetal alcohol syndrome?
LisaM
(27,830 posts)For any economic and environmental damage that happened during their "watch"?
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)For not being able to be "legally" married for most of my adult life. And even then in some states it still doesn't matter if you're legally married, they let the bible rule and nobody does shit about it.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)He signed the Paris Accord