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Pope’s Encyclical Scientifically and Morally Valid; Dutch Court Rules Climate Action a Human Right
David Suzuki: Pope’s Encyclical Is a ‘Scientifically and Morally Valid Call for Radical Change’. Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, humans for somewhere around 150,000. But in my brief lifetime—less than 80 years—human populations have exploded exponentially, from two billion to more than seven billion. In that short time, we’ve created consumer societies and decimated the planet’s natural systems, used up resources, filled oceans with plastic and pollution, altered water cycles and upset the Earth’s carbon cycle, disrupting global climate systems.
In Historic Ruling, Dutch Court Says: Climate Action is a Human Right. “The state must do more to avert the imminent danger caused by climate change, also in view of its duty of care to protect and improve the living environment,” read a statement from the Hague District Court.
