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Future generations having rights is a weird concept. If we cut science spending, can someone sue on behalf of future generations that they are being deprived of
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
Future generations having rights is a weird concept. If we cut science spending, can someone sue on behalf of future generations that they are being deprived of a better world. Is advocating for negative population growth a hate crime against future generations since you are trying to ensure fewer will be born?
The real issue with climate change is that it is not electorally popular to do anything other than a few token gestures. The increased gas taxes contributed to the yellow vest protests in France. The Australian election upset was also spurred by concern that one of the parties would try to cut fossil fuels.
I do not know that trying to do an end around the electorate and appealing to the judiciary on a novel legal theory is going to work in the long term.
- headmelted 7y agoUltimately you're right if course. The real problem is that half of the people on the planet either just don't care about climate change or believe in science, and a lot of the other half are largely unmotivated. We need to tackle the hardest problem, which is changing hearts and minds. I don't have a suggestion here, just pointing out that we need to be honest about the real problem. It's like complaining about Brexit and/or Trump. Your problem isn't the situation itself, it's that half the population looked at an option utterly abhorrent to you and said "sounds good to me".