Matt Rosendale, a Montana Republican serving in the House of Representatives, responded to the Held v. Montana decision with the worst sort of condescending bluster. “This is not a school project,” he insisted. “It’s a courtroom. . . . Judge Seeley did a huge disservice to the courts and to these youths by allowing them to be used as pawns in the Left’s poorly thought-out plan to ruin our power grid and compromise our national security in the name of their Green New Fantasy.”
The only fantasy, however, was Rosendale’s characterization of the proceedings. The plaintiffs’ case was overwhelmingly persuasive, with extensive testimony from climate and pediatric health experts showing that people younger than twenty-five were going to be especially vulnerable to the many impacts climate change is going to have on physical and psychological health. In her ruling, Seeley summarized some of the damages to which the plaintiffs had testified.
I think it’s crazy that there are still so many out there that still just don’t get how fucked we are.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his fundraising ability and political power depends upon his not understanding it.
Greed will be the downfall of us all
Two Katrina-level disasters in Florida within the next 12 years.
Doesn’t mean they’ll recognize them. Maybe they’ll just be flukes.
It’s not that they don’t “get it” - it’s tat they actively want to fuck other people, even if that means fucking themselves. They have the mentality of suicide-bombers, willing to sacrifice themselves to harm others.
Or alternatively they’re paid by lobbyists to protect fossil fuels industry’s interests. And since they’re sociopaths they don’t care if they wreck the earth and drive humanity to extinction as long as they get their proverbial 30 pieces of silver.
They believe that money can solve all their problems
I love it. Not getting around that without amending their Constitution, either.
A higher court can still overturn it.
Awesome. Way to go Montana for leading the energy revolution!
