Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

Earth Sciences, True Crime, Science

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In the Juliana vs. The United States case, a group of young people sued the government for incentivizing increased fossil fuel dependence, thereby robbing the next generation of the pursuit for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The suit has...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Drill, I'm your host, Amy Westervelt.
0:13.4	We're working on our next investigative series.
0:16.0	It's now going to come out in January, but trust me, the weight will be worth it.
0:19.6	In the meantime, we're bringing you updates on some of the other climate lawsuits going
0:23.4	on, some of the cases that we've mentioned in the past.
0:26.3	Today reporter Emily Gertz is joining us, Emily publishes a newsletter, deregulation
0:30.4	nation, that tracks the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks.
0:34.4	She also contributes to drilled quite a bit.
0:36.4	And today, Emily looked at two different cases where children are demanding climate action
0:41.7	through the US courts and international law.
0:44.1	Emily, thanks for being here.
0:45.5	Oh, you're welcome.
0:46.5	It's great to be here.
0:48.6	So first, I feel like I should say that these quote unquote children are now all like
0:54.0	teens and 20 year old.
0:56.4	But most of them, in the first case, we're going to talk about, yes, quite a few of them
1:03.2	are no longer miders, but some of them still are.
1:06.7	Some of them still are.
1:07.7	Yeah.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:09.7	Okay.
1:10.7	So let's look at this case.
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