'Major victory' for kids suing Obama

[WhiteTara]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/11/opinions/sutter-climate-kids-update/?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion

(CNN)It's a case an attorney called "one of the most significant in our nation's history."

And, thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge pushed it much-much closer to trial.
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wenty-one young people (ages 8 to 19) are suing President Barack Obama and the federal government over making a mess of the planet for future generations.

It's the climate version of David v. Goliath.

A bunch of kids suing the big-bad feds.

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The climate kids' argument is multifaceted and nuanced, bringing in concepts of public trust doctrine as well as constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. But one of the oh-wow points they're making is this: Young people and unborn generations are being discriminated against when it comes to the U.S. propagation of climate change.

[cleanhippie]

1. While I agree with the principle, saying "unborn generations" are affected is disingenuous.

That's like the anti-choicers saying "unborn child". Someone that does exist isn't having their rights taken away.
My point: there's a better way to go about this.

[Travis_0004]

3. An unborn generation lacks standing

If an unborn generation wants to sue, they should have to file a lawsuit themselves.

[cleanhippie]

4. Exactly

[SoLeftIAmRight]

5. tell that to all the unborn that live in a bath of toxic of chemicals

...

[Travis_0004]

8. The unborn don't live anywhere.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

9. did anyone tell you about the birds and the bees

9 months - many surrounded by fluid tainted with many of hundreds of chemicals

half of the people are below average

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. It's not quite the same.

Unborn generations are going to exist someday; a foetus that is aborted is never going to be a child.

If you visualise the universe as four-dimensional, unborn generations exist at certain points in space-time, while the person an aborted foetus "would" (a word that is much more complicated than it sounds) have become does not.

A better analogy might be foetal alcohol syndrome?

[LisaM]

2. Ahh. Can I sue people who voted in the 1950s, then?

For any economic and environmental damage that happened during their "watch"?

[Politicalboi]

7. Since I'm gay, I should be able to sue

For not being able to be "legally" married for most of my adult life. And even then in some states it still doesn't matter if you're legally married, they let the bible rule and nobody does shit about it.

[tk2kewl]

10. Why do they hate Obama?

He signed the Paris Accord