Editor’s note: Youth today are taking up the urgent call humanity and the planet. Their efforts to build a climate change movement are crucial steps toward the ultimate solution: that the public gain control of the corporations and create a society where the protection of the Earth and its people will be society’s priority.
These young people, pictured above, are suing the U.S. government over climate change, and the Supreme Court just ruled that the Trump Administration has to face them in court. The suit argues that the Trump administration “violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, as well as failed to protect essential public trust resources” through their climate policies. The Court stated, “The breadth of [the youth’s] claims is striking” and ordered the District Court to take the federal government’s “concerns into account in assessing the burdens of discovery and trial, as well as the desirability of a prompt ruling on the Government’s pending dispositive motions.” (Forbes)
