Posted on 06/27/2024 7:05:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Things aren’t going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year.
The electric vehicle movement is stalled out, solar and wind power are both still fringe forms of energy, and the green candidates got crushed in recent elections in Europe because voters are sick of the higher prices associated with green policies.
So having struck out with consumers, businesses and at the ballot box, now the greens are moving on to the courts. The climate change industrial complex has now joined forces with trial lawyers to advance their war on fossil fuels.
One of the more absurd lawsuits happened in Hawaii.
There, a group of 13 teenagers — honest, I’m not making this up — sued Hawaii’s government over its use of fossil fuels. Environmental law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice claim that Hawaii’s natural resources are imperiled by CO2 emissions. Even if that were true, shouldn’t they be suing China?
The settlement will require the state to eliminate fossil fuels from its transportation system by 2045, and also formally recognizes the right to file future lawsuits against other parties.
Gov. Josh Green even stood next to the young plaintiffs as he read a statement claiming, “This settlement informs how we as a state can best move forward to achieve life-sustaining goals.”
There’s so much that’s wrong about this decision. How did a bunch of teenagers possibly have standing to sue? What possible harm have they suffered from fossil fuels?
The irony is that this island paradise in the Pacific — whose primary industry is tourism — is going to collapse without fossil fuels. With no jets and cruise ships allowed, will tourists and business travelers have to arrive by sailboat?
But this new technique of using lawsuits to advance the anti-fossil fuels movement has spread to other states. Last August, a judge ruled that GOP-dominated Montana violated its constitution when it approved fossil fuel projects without taking climate change into account.
After recent flooding in Vermont, green activists sued the state for not abolishing fossil fuels.
Massachusetts is suing Exxon Mobil for adverse weather conditions........
>And they had “standing.”<
To use the SCOTUS logic used in Murthy vs Missouri
that removed the injunction stopping government’s social media censorship, past harm is not an indicator of future harm. SMH
So, no. They would not have standing.
EC
How can they possibly have that authority??????
That’s not the job of the judiciary.
How do the judges plan to get around; walk, bicycle, four legged animals, hot air balloon?
I thought that too...
But now I think not
“How do the judges plan to get around; walk, bicycle, four legged animals, hot air balloon?”
o Walk, Okay
o bicycle, only without rubber (for tires); lubricants for bearings; or metals (requires coal or oil to process).
o four legged animals, Maybe if not producing methane.
o hot air balloon, how will you produce hot air for flight?
In the end tourists will have to walk or row across the Pacific O. in a dugout canoe to get there.
IIRC-—ALMOST EVERYTHING USED DAILY IN HAWAII IS FLOWN IN.
THEY PRODUCE VERY LITTLE OF THEIR OWN DAILY NEEDS.
The perfect example.
The moon Titan has lakes of Methane.
Are we to believe they were formed from fossils?
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