In the same week large swaths of the US were under extreme heat warnings, Joe Biden’s Justice Department filed its most recent motion to dismiss a landmark climate case by arguing that nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to a secure climate.
Your right, but this needs to change. In order to stop Billionaires from ensuring there isn’t a single functional ecosystem, legal actions will be necessary.
Probably, but it doesn’t need to be enshrined in the Constitution. The federal government already has the power to regulate emissions, it doesn’t need the Constitution to reiterate that.
Then possibly something needs to change - add a new Amendment or something. But to claim that old laws written with an old understanding of how the world works needs to somehow carry the semantic weight of something it was never written to do seems a bit much.
Why does the Constitution need to be involved? The federal government already has power to regulate emissions, so there’s nothing stopping Congress (from a constitutional perspective) from passing laws to do so.
Wouldn’t that be the EPA’s job? I do wish they had more power or were more strict when it came to climate change measures. I did find this though: https://www.epa.gov/climate-change
Ya, the funding cuts make it tough to do though. The EPA actually just decided to not reevaluate the smog standards showing the inability to do much at all.
It’s a nothing article. There’s no reason to have ever assumed it was a constitutional right
There’s plenty of other, much better reasons to justify the need for stable climate.
It’s not about justifying the need for a livable climate, but being able to legally enforce the future having one.
The constitution also doesn’t deny the right to a stable climate, if that is what you mean.
It just has nothing to do with it.
Your right, but this needs to change. In order to stop Billionaires from ensuring there isn’t a single functional ecosystem, legal actions will be necessary.
Probably, but it doesn’t need to be enshrined in the Constitution. The federal government already has the power to regulate emissions, it doesn’t need the Constitution to reiterate that.
Then possibly something needs to change - add a new Amendment or something. But to claim that old laws written with an old understanding of how the world works needs to somehow carry the semantic weight of something it was never written to do seems a bit much.
Why does the Constitution need to be involved? The federal government already has power to regulate emissions, so there’s nothing stopping Congress (from a constitutional perspective) from passing laws to do so.
Wouldn’t that be the EPA’s job? I do wish they had more power or were more strict when it came to climate change measures. I did find this though: https://www.epa.gov/climate-change
Ya, the funding cuts make it tough to do though. The EPA actually just decided to not reevaluate the smog standards showing the inability to do much at all.
The SCOTUS ruled last year that the EPA does not have the authority to do essentially anything real to protect the environment.