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Now welcome to the award-winning best of a left podcast with Cook's Today from Moyers

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the Merin Institute.

Remember Kelsey Judiana from Eugene Argon?

She's 18 years old and co-plaint if in a lawsuit spearheaded by the organization Our Children's

Trust, which claims that Argon is not doing all it can to slow down global warming and

protect the future.

It's one of several such suits around the country based on the doctrine of public trust,

which goes back to ancient Rome.

There's an excerpt from that conversation.

Public trust states that the government is a trustee to protect these natural resources,

air, water, land, you know, to protect them for this generation and for many generations

down the line.

The law professor who has developed this theory in its more modern garb, Mary Christina

Wood, says it's because the government agencies that are supposed to protect our natural

resources have been captured by corporate raiders and lobbyists that these agencies treat

these industries as their clients instead of the public.

Do you think that's right?

Unfortunately, we do have a lot of corruption, a lot of money, a lot of greed that influences

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