Europäisches Gericht entscheidet über Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch Klima-Untätigkeit

6 comments

1. Okay so there is a legal precedent set? Now what?

2. What does this mean? Does it mean anything? Or is it just another warning and business as usual?

3. > A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.

   > The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change…. One woman said she could not leave her house for three weeks during the summer.

   > The European Court of Human Rights has made a landmark ruling that governments have a duty to protect people from climate change.

   > It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.

   Call me a hopeless romantic but I think it’s good for a major court to rule that governments shouldn’t let people bake in their homes as things get worse.

4. Ludicrous ruling. This “court” is literally a joke. Any real gov’t will ignore.

5. What’s the next step here then? Charge companies with violating human rights or only charging countries? Do the emissions include the amount generated when delegating to other countries so that countries can’t “improve” their numbers by moving more production to 3rd world countries.

6. What, so humanity has to pay humanity some money or something?