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Future generations’ sue Obama administration over climate change
msnbc ^ | Aug. 12, 2015 | Tony Dokoupil

Posted on 08/12/2015 11:10:07 AM PDT by PROCON

One kid says that his family’s farm has been damaged by drought and wildfire. Another says that his childhood home has been devalued by rising sea levels. A third alleges an assault on his whole culture as man-made climate change upends the natural world.

These and 18 other “youth plaintiffs” (ages 8 to 19) sued the federal government on Wednesday, walking a first-of-its-kind constitutional claim up the courthouse steps in Eugene, Oregon. The kids argue that inaction on climate change is a violation of their right to life, liberty and property. And they demand that President Obama, seven federal departments and the Environmental Protection Agency act immediately to preserve the climate for “future generations.”

The White House and EPA were not immediately available for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; obama; redistributionwealth; thechildren
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Useful Idiots.

If they really did care about their futures being ruined, they would sue 0bama for the impossible debt he is heaping on their shoulders, the tribalized society he is encouraging and the muzzie global caliphate he is building.


21 posted on 08/12/2015 11:38:25 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Begging to be enslaved. Is this the future of America?


22 posted on 08/12/2015 11:39:17 AM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: PROCON

Begging to be enslaved. Is this the future of America?


23 posted on 08/12/2015 11:44:26 AM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: PROCON

right to life, liberty and property

I thought it was “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”


24 posted on 08/12/2015 11:46:42 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: PROCON

The Democrat Party is disintegrating before our eyes but almost no one wants to report it.


25 posted on 08/12/2015 11:50:37 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: PROCON
EPA has a history of encouraging environmental groups to sue EPA to do what EPA wanted to do all along, thus using the courts to bypass the proper legislative process.

26 posted on 08/12/2015 11:55:46 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: PROCON

how about the kiddies suing Obama for the national debt he’s run up (for nothing!)
the kiddies are gonna have to repay it for their entire lives


27 posted on 08/12/2015 12:02:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: GeronL

Great illustration/refutation of “sea level rise”. Where was this picture taken?


28 posted on 08/12/2015 12:03:36 PM PDT by FairWitness (Everything is easy, once you've done it once)
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To: GeronL

Love the pics! Forwarded to my friends. Thanks!


29 posted on 08/12/2015 12:12:01 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: PROCON

Good intentions don’t matter as much as the right actions.
Good words without the actions don’t matter, either.


30 posted on 08/12/2015 12:13:51 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: GeronL

Cute pic, but needs tidal info to be really convincing.


31 posted on 08/12/2015 12:16:39 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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No idea, but its funny


32 posted on 08/12/2015 12:29:02 PM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: PROCON

About as credible as the apostrophe is needed after “generations” in the headline.


33 posted on 08/12/2015 1:08:22 PM PDT by Moltke
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To: PROCON

I need to file a suit regarding the dire circumstances that will occur if the government doesn’t put a stop to this Yellowstone supervolcano exploding.


34 posted on 08/12/2015 1:21:01 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Do the plaintiffs live in caves, wear grass clothing, plant and harvest their food with hand tools, walk or ride donkeys everywhere? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ they need to sue their own stupid selves.


35 posted on 08/12/2015 4:18:23 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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Frightening - watched part of a panel discussion about millennials this afternoon on C-Span - talked about a poll done with a group of that age which showed that the biggest foreign threat the country faced as far as most of them - 44%- were concerned was climate change (the biggest domestic threat was income inequality) - the propaganda is taking hold....


36 posted on 08/12/2015 8:42:49 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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As long as those kids stay off my lawn, I'm not too worried.

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37 posted on 08/12/2015 8:59:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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