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Germany, Netherlands, Australia... People who for ideological reasons are cheering for this establishment of a precedent where imagined future victims are enoug
by woodpanel 5y ago
Germany, Netherlands, Australia... People who for ideological reasons are cheering for this establishment of a precedent where imagined future victims are enough for current societies to be found guilty, will be dumbfounded once this precedent is used to establish policies they don’t like.
Case in point: If the reduction of future GDP leads to constitutional courts demanding policy actions than there is every legal basis to nix any current environmental policy that has direct/near term negative impact on GDP because just going from 3% GDP growth to 2% growth over the course of 100 years means a delta in wealth the size of Mexico-vs-USA.
- Isinlor 5y agoThis is just direct a interpretation of the law. You should be upset with Australian legislature for creating this type of laws not with courts that are tasked with interpreting it. > The objects of the EPBC Act include providing for the protection of the environment > The principles of “ecologically sustainable development” are given meaning by s 3A which provides: > (c) the principle of inter-generational equity—that the present generation should ensure that the health, diversity and productivity of the environment is maintained or enhanced for the benefit of future generations;