Posted on 06/12/2023 3:29:43 PM PDT by KingofZion
A landmark climate change trial opened on Monday in Montana, where a group of youths are contending that the state’s embrace of fossil fuels is destroying pristine environments, upending cultural traditions and robbing young residents of a healthy future.
The case, more than a decade in the making, is the first of several set to go to trial in the United States.
Rikki Held, 22, a plaintiff who was among the first witnesses to testify on Monday, described how her family’s 3,000-acre ranch in eastern Montana has been threatened by droughts, wildfires and extreme weather, from heat waves to floods. At times she grew tearful talking about working through those conditions while trying to maintain the family’s livelihood.
“I know that climate change is a global issue, but Montana needs to take responsibility for our part of that,” Ms. Held said. “You can’t just blow it off and do nothing about it.”
The case revolves around the contention from 16 young residents — who range in age from 5 to 22 — that the state government has failed to live up to its constitutional mandate to “maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.”
“Montana’s emissions are simply too minuscule to make any difference,” Michael Russell, an assistant attorney general, said during the state’s opening statement. “Climate change is a global issue that effectively relegates Montana’s role to that of a spectator.”
The two-week trial will determine whether a judge should declare that the state’s support for the fossil fuel industry is unconstitutional. Such a finding would put legal pressure on government leaders to take action, and set a tone for other states that are watching how the proceedings unfold.
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The end of fossil fuels is the end of food.
It would almost be worth it to see them starve to death.
I meant to put “fossil” in quotes for the Poindexters.
“...16 young residents — who range in age from 5 to 22...”
5 year olds think they know everything!
Targeted by WEF.
Think of a very long line with the NYT on the left and Science on the right. You got it. The only folks that believe the climate change porn are journalists, DemocRATs, and government sponsored university “research”.
Let's make these youths survive a Montana winter without fossil fuel.
“3,000-acre ranch in eastern Montana has been threatened by droughts, wildfires and extreme weather, from heat waves to floods”
In other words. The same thing farms and ranches have faced since mankind adopted agriculture and animal husbandry. And guess what... Those 3000 acres will all be weeds and prairie grass if not for fossil fuels. This dimwit want to starve the nation. BUT that’s the plan. I’m sure whomever is paying for this lawfare is looking to buy even more land on the cheap.
These ungrateful little bastards should be prohibited from using all fossil fuels and lubricants. Azzholes.
Judges are pathetic wusses these days. Very few have the guts to throw this obvious BS out of court at the start.
Like the once-pristine environments shown below? Some of us are old enough to remember singing "America, The Beautiful" long before these ugly monstrosities destroyed pristine environments all across the land:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
for amber waves of grain;
for purple mountain majesties
above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee,
and crown thy good with brotherhood
from sea to shining sea.
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Yeah it’s hot and dry outside and I’m sorry but you need more than discomfort to have a case and it would help if you had some hard evidence if you want to win it.
I’d happily vote to deprive anybody under the age of 40
the use of anything made from or provided by fossil fuels, just to save their planet for them, when I’m gone.
Go back to being Hunter/gatherers, kids.
but you’ll save what?
https://edberry.com/blog/climate/climate-law/held-v-montana/
I'm so old that I remember when Montana was a beautiful 72 degrees year round with no high winds, no bugs, no humidity, no blizzards, no scorching summer heat, gentle rainfall nurturing crops, no hail storms flattening crops, no woodland fires. It was magnificent...then man and his evil fossil fuels happened.
Ms. Rikki Held is a smart person. Let's see her run her farm without fossil fuels, stay warm in her house in the winter without fossil fuels, travel to town to get ranch and farm supplies, or use trucks to haul her crops at harvest time. C'mon, Rikki! Put your money where your mouth is.
Hilarious to hear anyone with 3000 acres out in West Dakota (that’s, uh, East Billings) bitching about the weather.
I have relatives and friends doing just fine with ranches half that size in the same area. Not getting rich, but nobody else does anymore in the cattle biz.
And what do these little tards think of the Great Winter of ‘23?
It was average to above average in Montana but the biggest ever just to the South in WY and Utah. It didn’t even flood, they are having a fairytale spring following the best winter ever.
Clearly a scam, probably to get cheap dirt like you said.
If these pinhead children had any brains, instead of hassling the government over energy sources that keep them healthy and comfortable, they should be suing the feds over the $31,500,000,000,000+ debt they’re being left with.
These yutes just need to learn how to raise dental floss and leave the rest of us alone.
If you live in Montana, extreme weather is just part of the scene!
As poorly as windmills often operate, for all we know that could be an animated gif.
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