Essay by Eric Worrall
A lawsuit to make climate action a constitutional right; A team of young plaintiffs including James Hansen’s granddaughter is shocked that Biden is opposing their effort to make climate action a binding requirement on the US government.
Biden Is Aiming to Destroy a Historic Climate Change Lawsuit
Juliana v. United States is a historic climate change lawsuit seeking to establish a constitutional right to a livable planet. But the Biden administration has indicated it will fight tooth and nail to prevent the lawsuit from ever getting a trial.
Any day now, a federal circuit court is expected to deliver a ruling that would allow a historic climate change lawsuit to proceed to trial.
If and when the case moves forward, however, it faces a major obstacle: President Joe Biden’s Justice Department.
The lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, was brought by twenty-one young plaintiffs in 2015 and seeks to establish a federal, constitutional right to a livable planet. If the case is successful, any federal policies that enable more fossil fuel development could be challenged as unconstitutional.
But the Obama and Trump administrations both vehemently fought the lawsuit, and now those close to the case say that Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicated it will also use every procedural tool at its disposal to prevent the lawsuit from ever getting a trial.
“I have asked [them] very directly, if we win this motion, and we can move forward with the case, do you intend to go to trial?” Julia Olson, the lead plaintiff’s lawyer, told us. “Their response has always been something along the lines of, ‘It is our position that the court doesn’t have jurisdiction and that this case should never go to trial.’”
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“There was zero shift when Biden took office, zero shift from the Trump administration,” said Olson.
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Read more: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/biden-climate-change-juliana-case-lawsuit-doj
We can only speculate why Biden’s administration doesn’t want the plaintiffs to win.
My guess is someone in the Biden administration knows the climate crisis is nonsense. The Biden administration might talk about climate action, but in my opinion Biden’s opposition to this lawsuit is evidence he has no genuine intention to reduce emissions.
Even Biden’s opposition to domestic oil production has done nothing to actually reduce emissions, all it has done is to make life more expensive for ordinary Americans. Foreign energy tycoons get rich under Biden’s America last energy policies, but the overall emissions stay the same.
Correction (EW): James Hansen, not James Hanson 🙂
These young climate activists should make an education a priority first.
James Hansen is educating them. That’s the problem.
Who’s funding this?
Which leftwing billionaire is funding this?
They all know it is nonsense, but seeing the chance to tax us because of it, pretend it is real.
So all you see are token gestures, but in reality, there is no serious attempt to limit fossil fuel usage.
Look at the UK, the gov just gave Shell the go ahead to explore more north sea oil fields, and is repoening the discussion ion fracking. Despite it being a ludicrously green government. Sunak is up to his eye balls in the movement.
From the article: “Juliana v. United States is a historic climate change lawsuit seeking to establish a constitutional right to a livable planet.”
Such hubris! Can you say “divorced from reality”?
From the Jacobin website:
“Pro-worker climate policy might someday earn the support of a powerful working-class army, but first, we have to help bring that army into existence”
The website is run by loony eco-commies. It’s comedy gold.
If this case means – keeping fossil fuels in the ground then a current live example of what happens is occurring in Sri Lanka.
They have, 12 months ago banned fertilizer, pesticides and any other normal and useful aid to productive farming and ruined the country.
Crop yields down catastrophically
Tea exports down catastrophically
So, little food, little cash, little fuel just as a result of:
“A GOOD IDEA”
Read here and weep what one person with a ‘good idea’ can do…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10847487/How-worlds-organic-farm-nation-led-hunger-economic-ruin-writes-TOM-LEONARD.html
Any sane constitutionalist knows just how very dangerous it is to add random “constitutional rights” to our body of Federal Law. Look what has happened with the abortion issue.
What kinds of spin-offs would result from a “constitutional right to a livable planet” — an you imagine the bureaucracy that would be established to enforce such a right? Would the federal government be required to go to war to prevent India from building coal plants? Go to war to prevent Brazil from allowing deforestation?
Endless series of citizen-vs-government lawsuits to follow just in the US . . . you know, “You failed to provide me with a ‘livable planet’ “. . . cue supporting testimony from expert witness Greta Thunberg.
ROTFLMAO.
It’s a great plan for future careers as lawyers.
Kids! Want a livable planet? Start by tidying your bedroom.