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Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

[The Greek government says,] “The effects of climate change as recorded so far do not seem to directly affect human life or human health. […] An absolute cause and effect relationship between climate change and the effect on human health cannot be established”

Also Greece: EU, help us! Climate change is burning our forests!!!11

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Great, I feel like this is more likely to make a difference than some of these protests I've been seeing lately

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Nope.

Here in Germany the highest court decided a while ago (2019, 2021? Not sure), that the current climate policy is unconstitutional, because it's limiting the freedom of coming generations.

And nothing happened.

So Germany currently has a government that openly defies the constitution and nobody seems to care.

[-] neanderthal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not German, but if I were to guess It's all about the cars. We need to stop driving cars en mass. Isn't the car industry a significant portion of your economy?

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Agree. Lying on the motorway to block commuters will just make commuters annoyed with your movement. Yes, you want them angry, at the politicians and oil companies, not climate activism.

[-] neanderthal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This might work in some US states, key changes in a few large states would make a massive difference. Any lawyers among us?

[-] atearinspace@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

It was recently done in Montana: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kids-sued-montana-over-climate-change-and-won/ This is the group of lawyers that were involved with that plus many other suits across the country: https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/

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