Is it our constitutional right to live in a world safe from climate change?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Growing up in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nathan Baring has seen the signs of a warming world all around him. The winters have begun to lose their infamous chill. Thawing permafrost is shifting the ground beneath his feet. And some years, there isn’t even enough snow to ski.

“If you have eyes and you walk out your back door, you can see the changes that have taken place over only my short childhood,” said Baring, 19, who already has six years of climate activism under his belt.

So when lawyers asked Baring if he’d like to sue the federal government for failing to tackle climate change, he readily agreed.

“When I started, I didn’t have the right to vote,” Baring said. “This legal avenue was what I saw as the most effective way to put myself out here.”

The case, Juliana vs. United States, alleges that the U.S. government has violated the rights of 21 young Americans by permitting — and in many cases, subsidizing — the continued use of fossil fuels that cause climate change.

Juliana is the first lawsuit to argue that there’s a constitutional right to a safe and livable climate. Experts say it’s an ambitious and unprecedented tactic, and many were surprised that the case has made it this far.

https://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-youth-climate-trial-juliana-20190603-story.html

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Well, no. Climate change isn't something addressed even in a very

peripheral way, in the Constitution.

Perhaps you could interpret the "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to include living in a world safe from climate change, but that's not from the Constitution.

[MFM008]

2. You have a right to LIVE

As best you can without the government complicit
In the demise of the world.
SUE away.

[Calculating]

3. It all comes down to interpretation

The constitution doesn't really apply to climate change in any sort of direct way.