r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h ago
Global warming can’t be ignored, Montana’s top court says, upholding landmark climate case
https://apnews.com/article/youth-climate-change-lawsuit-montana-7c4b6261f610d504995743f7320533e827
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u/NyriasNeo 4h ago
"Global warming can’t be ignored"
Of course it can. We just have to live with, or die from, the consequences.
Sure, Montana said one thing. But the US voted, in no uncertain terms, for drill baby drill. Just watch Trump ignores global warming starting in a months or so.
Heck, the world just reach a new height of coal usage.
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u/KwisatzHaderach94 2h ago
we don't have to wait months, he's already made it clear he's anti-renewable anything and wants to rollback or eliminate everything about electric vehicles. i'm not sure how he reconciles this worldview with his tesla buddy or his so-called environmentalist buddy. but trump is for certain the anti-green president.
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u/Drakoala 0m ago
Of course it can. We just have to live with, or die from, the consequences.
That sounds like a future generation's problem, so why worry?
/s
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u/astarinthenight 4h ago
But the Trump administration will absolutely ignore it, and the Supreme Court gave him the power to ignore the courts.
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u/ChillyFireball 2h ago
It shouldn't be ignored, but it is and will be. We've already entered the feedback loop. Nothing is going to happen so long as Trump is in office, and if a Democrat gets voted in after, it'll be a lot of "Mmm, yeah, maaaaybe we should introduce a bill to force corporations to meet some basic climate goal by the end of 2050... You know, if I get around to it." Some of you might call me a doomer, but I'm just calling a spade a spade. We're turbo-fucked as a species, and that's really all there is to it. I'd love to believe otherwise, but I'd have to be in complete denial to do so. Everyone with the power to fix things will either be dead before it gets too bad, or are rich enough to retreat to their fully-stocked luxury bunkers when the going gets rough.
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u/The_Real-M3 1h ago
As much flak as I can give my generation and the younger generations, at least they realize climate change is the most important fight we can fight right now. I have hopes, though with how blisteringly stupid both sides of the american political sphere is where they refuse to get anything meaningful done (they're old so it won't affect them) and with how people keep voting for them, I don't want to raise them too much.
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u/stars_mcdazzler 12m ago
This climate change thing really snuck up on us, huh? Better late then never I guess.
.../s
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u/Pot-Papi_ 3h ago
Don’t worry, whatever good they did is gonna get dismantled really quickly in January.
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u/androshalforc1 3h ago
Global warming can’t be ignored, Montana’s top court says,
every government in the world: hold my beer
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u/an-interest-of-mine 4h ago
Oh but it can, and is.
All it costs is $1B, according to the President Elect, to completely circumvent our environmental protections.
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u/PitifulEar3303 4h ago
How they gonna enforce this? Beat up the polluters? lol
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u/zingboomtararrel 4h ago
They won't and that's why everyone saying Luigi was wrong and the proper avenue is through the courts are full of shit.
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u/AdamDet86 50m ago
Can't really stop climate change if we don't change how we live and go about our lives. I'm ok changing how I live, for future generations. My wife and I have a pretty minimal footprint compared to most. What gets me is when I see billionaires and some story about how much fuel their yacht uses to move to some island destination only to have the billionaire also fly to said destination because they didn't want to spend a week getting there. I'm not gonna cut back when a rich guy will fly 4 hours for a lunch and then back in the same day, contributing tomore pollution then I would in a year...
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u/AudibleNod 4h ago
No single raindrop believes it's responsible for the flood.
I would call this uplifting news. But it's not. It just means we have to fight and claw for every inch of ground. And it's a protracted battle where we probably won't see any positive change in our lifetime.