This is Climate 1, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

Kids these days are rightfully concerned about how a changing climate will affect their future.

So they're taking those concerns onto the streets and into the courts.

They are accusing the federal government of violating their constitutional right to life, liberty, and property.

You might say young people have a special interest in the long-term effects of climate

disruption. People look at climate change and say, oh, this will affect me 20 years from now. They

don't feel the changes today. But it really makes it a lot more intimidating, a lot

scarier to deal with.

So they're not waiting until they're running things to start working for change now.

I've made this conscious decision to dedicate, you know, everything to mitigating climate change because to me it's the most important thing that I can do with my time and energy.

Youth in the streets and in the courts.

Up next on Climate One.

Does climate change threaten young people's constitutional right to life, liberty, and property?

Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.

I'm Devin Strolovich.

Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,

are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.

Students in many grade in high schools learn the basics of how burning fossil fuels is driving rising temperatures and rising seas.

Now some students are taking that knowledge

onto the streets and into the courts, asking the federal government to come up with a climate

repair plan to cut carbon pollution and stabilize the climate. These young people are not content

to wait until they're running companies or other organizations in a decade or two. They're pressing

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