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Handel On The Law

(09/16) HOTL Hour 1 - Marginal Legal Replay

Handel On The Law

KFI AM 640

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4.3879 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

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0:00.0

There is a paper that has been released by Harvard.

0:04.9

It's a study.

0:06.1

It's actually Harvard Environmental Law Review.

0:09.7

And what it does is it has legal experts exploring the possibility of charging major oil companies with what they're calling as climate homicide.

0:21.6

What the hell is climate homicide?

0:24.6

Climate homicide because the actions of the oil companies

0:28.6

have contributed to thousands of climate change-related deaths.

0:32.6

Okay, that makes sense.

0:33.6

Although good luck.

0:35.6

Oil companies have been aware of the risks of climate change for decades.

0:39.6

Matter of fact, Shell in 1991 produced an educational film called Climate of Concern, Warning of

0:46.9

Climate Change Risks, including the extreme weather and floods and famines and forest fires,

0:54.5

et cetera, and claim there are climate refugees. the extreme weather and floods and famines and forest fires, etc.

1:00.0

And claim there are climate refugees that are trying to leave.

1:03.8

And the paper says, even with this knowledge,

1:09.4

Shell and a bunch of the other major fossil fuel companies, oil companies,

1:14.5

invest in fossil fuels, lobby against climate protection measure therefore these companies are liable for homicide now just as an aside a company can be

1:23.0

liable for homicide a corporation can be tried for a criminal act.

1:29.2

That does happen.

1:30.5

Now, they don't go to jail, but they pay lots of money,

1:34.4

and it's well beyond just a straight negligence lawsuit,

1:37.1

a civil lawsuit.

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