Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policies

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[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
Great, I feel like this is more likely to make a difference than some of these protests I've been seeing lately
- 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.
  
  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?
This might work in some US states, key changes in a few large states would make a massive difference. Any lawyers among us?
- 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/
- Lots

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