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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She needs to be Agenda 21 removed from the ranch and settled in a 15 minute ‘hood in Washington DC.
The Ranch needs to be surrendered to the State and left to run to ruin through the auspices of Mother Nature.
This is another example how America is upside down. You have adults providing deference to young, inexperienced, and uneducated children. All that are involved are wrong. It works the same way with gender denial. These are the lies of Satan.
“Rikki Held, 22, a plaintiff who was among the first witnesses to testify on Monday, described how her family’s 3,000-acre ranch”
She doesn’t need 3000 acres. She can damn well donate that for a wind farm or condos for the homeless.
Every time I drive up the Columbia River Gorge between Washington and Oregon, 99.8% of the thousands of windmills are doing nothing.
What a great investment!
Maybe someone needs to make an offer to buy the ranch so she can move to San Francisco or Los Angeles?
OMG!!! I had no idea!!!
The weather in the USA has been changing since long before recorded history.
I remember a winter in Wisconsin when the temp hit minus 70-———LONG BEFORE THE PHRASE WIND CHILL TEMPERATURE was used. Early 1960’s.
We had 6 vehicles in the driveway——ALL on Head bolt Heaters for winter starting. Do NOT ASK WHAT THE POWER BILL WAS FROM WISCONSIN POWER & LIGHT......
MY 1933 Chevy pickup truck with a 1952 straight 6 Chevy engine was the ONLY one that started. IT had a Large WOODEN FRONT BUMPER.
I push started the other 5 vehicles.
It dampened down the ridicule I used to get about “MY OLD TRUCK”.
These kids under 40 seem to think that history started in 1980.
EXACTLY what crop are her parents raising on those 3000 acres??? FOOD for others????
I winder if ANYONE ever told her about the SOD houses early pioneers lived in???
OR about the HAND CARTS they used to get out west???
It AIN’T HERS-—IT belongs to her hard working family
Da yoots drank the Kool-ade.
This case should have been dismissed already. WTH?
This poor little snowflake is in the wrong line of work. Ranching has never been for the fainthearted, fossil fuels or no.
Pretty much.
Currently we get a one to ninety return on wheat seed planted.
You plant one pound of wheat you get ninety pounds of grain.
Back a thousand years ago it was one to four. You planted one pound of seed you got four pounds of grain. When you did not have crop failure. Which was about one year in four.
About five hundred years ago the return was one to eight.
A hundred years ago it was one to twelve.
So going back to pre wide spread use of fossil fuels would reduce our harvests by 86%.
That does not sound like a happy thing to me but if the young people in question would care to reduce their calorie intake by 86% for five years as and example as to how it should be done I would follow the results with interest.
As bad as it is today, it’ll be 100 times worse real soon if it isn’t stopped.
My mom’s great grandparents lived in sod house on the Saskatchewan prairie for nine years in the 1860s before they could save enough to buy lumber to build a proper house. They didn’t use any fossil fuels.
Imagine how long this snowflake would last in that world.
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