Posted on 06/24/2015 5:41:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A Dutch court has ordered the government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020, in a case environmentalists hope will set a precedent for other countries.
Campaigners brought the case on behalf of almost 900 Dutch citizens.
They argued the government had a legal obligation to protect its citizens from the dangers of climate change.
Jasper Teulings from Greenpeace called it a "landmark case".
"It shifts the whole debate. Other cases are being brought in Belgium, the Philippines. This is the start of a wave of climate litigation."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Watermelons
Green on the outside, red on the inside.
This crap is do to hit a wall in the next few years as the cost of energy impoverishes some nations and the lack of global warming makes fools of the experts.
No standing.
I think if those 900 people started the trend, maybe it will take off.
But I doubt it.
Maybe the court judge could furnish the 900 complainers a set of squirrel cages.
Population of the Netherlands: approx. 18 million
Population of the Earth: 7 billion and change
Not even a drop of pee in the swimming pool.
Just close all the green houses and the order is moot. Too bad real science is not incorporated in political and judicial edicts.
Yes, but it’s “precedent,” just as Australia’s ‘common sense gun control laws” are now being used to justify the implementation of similiar legislation here. These jackals don’t actually expect to see their political theater produce anything other than more rigid control of the masses.
Did you see the latest study? they bought 40 more years of cove...
Yes, a landmark case of Intergalactic stupidity.
Those communist court judges must have names and addresses.
What if they don’t?
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