Law and Disorder: Climate Change in the Courts
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Because you bought your robot vacuum on your Barclay card, you got zero percent interest for up to 24 months, which makes watching it, hypnotically sweeping up your crumbs, even more satisfying. Oh, Mr. Bit? What you buy is your business. Helping you pay less interest is ours. Barkley Card, make money work for you. Subject to financial status, new customers only. |
| 0:22.4 | Representative Example, 24.9% APR representative variable, 24.9% purchase rate per annum based on |
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| 0:32.4 | Do Americans have a constitutional right to a clean environment? |
| 0:37.0 | Climate One conversations feature |
| 0:38.7 | oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary |
| 0:43.9 | aspects of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. Climate change is affecting every aspect of our lives, our environment, our health, our economy, our future. |
| 1:03.1 | And now it's even creeping into our courtrooms. |
| 1:08.1 | Is our legal system equipped to handle the changing climate? |
| 1:12.1 | I am anticipating there are going to be professional malpractice lawsuits against architects and |
| 1:17.0 | engineers who design buildings and other structures that don't withstand the extreme weather |
| 1:21.9 | events that are now easily foreseeable. |
| 1:24.7 | Climate change has brought on a wave of new reasons to go to court. |
| 1:28.3 | And many states, legislators backed by oil interests have introduced bills designed to have a |
| 1:33.2 | chilling effect on protests against new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. |
| 1:38.3 | And survivors of disasters like Hurricane Katrina are finding that they may not have the |
| 1:42.7 | rights they thought they did. |
| 1:44.0 | Even if everybody knew that grandma wanted her niece, Hurricane Katrina are finding that they may not have the rights they thought they did. |
| 1:52.1 | Even if everybody knew that grandma wanted her niece or her granddaughter to inherit her home, |
| 1:58.7 | if that's not written down in a will, that's not what's going to happen by operation of law. |
| 2:02.2 | On today's program, we'll talk about climate-related lawsuits currently making their way through the legal system. I'll be joined by some of the people |
| 2:06.4 | working to ensure that climate issues and those most affected by them have their day in court. |
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