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Citing Next Generations, Lawsuits Demand Courts Recognize Mind-Blowing Climate Impacts. There are laws of nature that we have to comply with, says legal scholar on final episode of Moyers & Company. And those laws are supreme. The heart of the approach is the public trust doctrine, she told her host, longtime journalist and political commentator Bill Moyers. And it says that government is a trustee of the resources that support our public welfare and survival. And so a trust means that one entity or person manages a certain wealth, an endowment, so to speak, for the benefit of others. And in the case of the public trust, the beneficiaries are the present and future generations of citizens. Have we time to reclaim the public realm from corporate capture and develop a biospheric politics? commondreams.org/news/2015/01/02/citing-next-generations-lawsuits-demand-courts-recognize-mind-blowing-climate
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:18:19 +0000

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