What if climate breakdown is a violation of the rights of those yet to be born? “I have no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society,” wrote US district judge Ann Aiken. Additionally, First Nations communities are invoking treaty rights to prevent the pipeline transport of fossil fuels over unceded indigenous territories. Nothing illustrates this more profoundly than the problem of climate crisis, which calls into question the very future of a habitable planet. “Not that solar energy isn’t a viable energy source, but we worked at it for 35 years, and we really never made money.”A more decentralised, sustainable energy future is technically possible.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2019 04:52 UTC